Throughout civilization, religions have come a long way to impact modern society and civilization. One of the major Abrahamic religions, Islam, has made many advancements and contributed a variety of concepts, ideas, and inventions to Western civilization. Most of these contributions have gone unnoticed over the years and have been credited by various people, when in reality Muslim scholars formulated these concepts. Although some may believe that these contributions are irrelevant, the reality is that most of the concepts that humans use every day around the world come from a primarily Islamic school of thought. In 622 CE, a new world religion, Islam, emerged. The founder, a man named Prophet Muhammad, began to lead his growing group of followers along the path of Islamic ideals. Through many trials and tribulations, Islam eventually attracted more followers and was eventually established as an Abrahamic world religion, spreading across the Islamic empire. For many years, Muslims were challenged and fought in religious wars, causing tension. However, just 150 years later, Islam was one of the most popular religions in the region. With the establishment of the city of Baghdad as the new capital of the Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate around the middle of the 8th century, Islam entered a new era. This signaled new prosperity, educational benefits, and the flowering of many new concepts and ideas in mathematics, architecture, science, the arts, and education. Intellectual centers such as Baghdad, Cairo, Istanbul, Cordoba, and others began to flourish, as talented scholars began to think about ideas that had never been discovered before. It was the epitome of work...... middle of paper ... everywhere began to delve deeper into concepts never before derived. A famous scholar of the time, Ibn Al-Haytham, is often called "the world's first scientist" for his use of what is today the scientific method to obtain the results of one of his experiments. Using observations, controlled experiments, and logic, he began the process that all scientists use today to obtain accurate results. Similarly, Ibn Al-Haytham, while being a pioneer in the scientific method, also wrote a book on the subject of optics, which explored the concepts of reflection and refraction of light rays, and in which he also proposed new theories on vision concepts. and how the light worked. This book of optics (Kitab-al-Manazir) had 7 volumes, all in which Al-Haytham investigated the wonders of light using the scientific method to experiment with his theories..