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Sri Lanka, Aug. 5 -- From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we in the West take for granted. Here are 20 of their most influential innovations.

1) The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where some Muslims drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Makkah and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645.

It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London. The Arabic qaxwe became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffe and then English coffee.

An Arab or Somali?

Amirsade wrote:Sri Lanka, Aug. 5 -- From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we in the West take for granted. Here are 20 of their most influential innovations.

1) The story goes that an Somali-Arab named Khalid Raadamir qaxwe was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where some Muslims drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Makkah and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 69452.html

1 The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645.

nice try

There is no such thing as Muslim inventions. There is only Arab inventions after the rise of Islam. Nothing more cringy than a bush-hut African revert who claims Islamic history.

hydrogen wrote:There is no such thing as Muslim inventions. There is only Arab inventions after the rise of Islam. Nothing more cringy than a bush-hut African revert who claims Islamic history.

That is where you are wrong. Many people in history books with Islamic names are not Arabs.

Then the history is the history of whatever ethnicity they are. I'm not saying it's limited to Arabs but they're certainly not Africans.