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Thread: Salam my question is did Muslims ever invent any kind of eye glasses ?
I've never heard about any muslim inventing eye glasses but there are contributions to visual related things like the camera.


Sh Hamza Yusuf rocks the glasses sometimes
 
truthseeker63 said:
my question is did Muslims ever invent any kind of eye glasses ?
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Yes. It was a Muslim that invented them:

What is Taught: The English scholar Roger Bacon (d. 1292) first mentioned glass lenses for improving vision. At nearly the same time, eyeglasses could be found in use both in China and Europe.

What Should be Taught: Ibn Firnas of Islamic Spain invented eyeglasses during the 9th century, and they were manufactured and sold throughout Spain for over two centuries. Any mention of eyeglasses by Roger Bacon was simply a regurgitation of the work of al-Haytham (d. 1039), whose research Bacon frequently referred to.
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http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/sciencehistory.htm

Ibn Firnas........ made corrective lenses
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas_Ibn_Firnas

Invention of eyeglasses

Abbas Ibn Firnas is often credited for the invention of corrective lenses. Abbas had devised a way to finish sand into glass; which until that time, was secret to the Egyptians. These glasses could be shaped and polished into round rocks used for viewing—known as reading stones. In Islamic Spain during the ninth century, these rocks were manufactured and sold throughout Spain for over two centuries. Eye glasses were also described in the work of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (965-1040), who Roger Bacon frequently referred to in his own writings on eye glasses. Eye glasses were also used in China during the thirteenth century.[3]
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http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Eyeglasses
 
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Yup, Ibn Al Haythm, father of the optical sciences, invented the first use of lenses