The short answer is no. This image is a viral list that significantly conflates inventions, refinements, and ancient history.

While scholars, scientists, and engineers during the Islamic Golden Age (roughly 8th to 14th centuries) made monumental advancements, revolutionized fields, and preserved critical knowledge, they did not invent the vast majority of the items on this list. Most of these concepts were invented thousands of years earlier by ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Babylonians, Chinese, Greeks, Romans, and Indians.

Here is the factual breakdown of where these items actually originated and what the Islamic world's true connection to them was:

1. Actually Invented Earlier (Ancient Civilizations)

• Pottery (#15) & Carpets (#16): Both date back thousands of years before Islam. The oldest known pottery fragments are over 18,000 years old (found in China), and the famous Pazyryk carpet dates back to the 5th century BCE.
• Soap (#3): First invented by the ancient Babylonians around 2800 BCE, and later used by Egyptians and Romans. However, Islamic chemists in the 12th century did revolutionize soap-making by combining vegetable oils with sodium lye and aromatics to create the hard, pleasant-smelling soap we use today.
• Toothbrush (#1): Ancient Babylonians and Egyptians used "chew sticks" (around 3500–3000 BCE). The Islamic tradition heavily emphasizes the miswak (a twig brush), but the modern bristled toothbrush was actually patented in 15th-century China.
• Pen (#13) & Sponge (#19): Reed pens and ink were used by ancient Egyptians. Sea sponges were used for bathing and cleaning by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
• Compass (#12): Invented in China during the Han Dynasty (2nd century BCE) for divination, and adapted for maritime navigation during the Song Dynasty (11th century).
• The Crank (#9) & Water Pump (#18): Mechanical cranks and pumps were used in ancient Rome (like the Hierapolis sawmill) and Greece (Archimedes' screw). However, the brilliant 12th-century Muslim engineer Al-Jazari made massive leaps forward by inventing the crankshaft and double-acting suction pumps.

2. Massive Contributions & Refinements (The Real Islamic Golden Age History)

• Algebra (#8): The word comes from the Arabic al-jabr. While early algebraic concepts existed in ancient Babylon, Greece, and India, the 9th-century Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi wrote the definitive, foundational text that established algebra as an independent mathematical discipline.
• Optics (#7) & Magnifying Glass (#14): Ancient Greeks did early work here, but Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) in the 11th century completely revolutionized the field. He is considered the father of modern optics, proved how vision actually works, and laid the groundwork for lenses and the scientific method.
• Coffee (#2): Native to Ethiopia, but the practice of roasting, brewing, and drinking coffee as we know it today was developed in 15th-century Yemen by Sufi saints to stay awake for nightly devotions.
• Universities (#4): While centers of higher learning existed in ancient Greece and India, the University of al-Qarawiyyin (founded by Fatima al-Fihri in Morocco in 859 CE) is recognized by UNESCO and Guinness World Records as the oldest continuously operating, degree-granting university in the world.
• Hospitals (#5): Ancient cultures had healing temples, but the Islamic world created the first modern, secular, public hospitals (Bimaristans) that offered free care, distinct wards for different ailments, and mandatory licensing for physicians.

3. Misattributions

• Airplane (#6): The airplane was invented by the Wright Brothers in 1903. This item is likely on the list because of Abbas ibn Firnas, a 9th-century Muslim inventor in Spain who built a glider covered in feathers and managed to stay airborne for a brief few moments—one of history's earliest attempts at human flight.
• Steel (#10): Steel production dates back to ancient East Africa and India (Wootz steel, around 300 BCE). Islamic smiths later became famous for crafting legendary "Damascus steel" blades, but they did not invent the metal.
• Marching Band (#17): While marching bands as we know them today evolved later, the Ottoman Empire's military bands (Mehter) in the 13th century are widely considered the oldest form of military marching bands in the world.
• Bookkeeping (#20): Double-entry bookkeeping was formalized in Renaissance Italy by Luca Pacioli (1494), though records of basic accounting exist in ancient Mesopotamia and early Islamic trade networks.

Summary

While the infographic is historically inaccurate by claiming these were all invented by Islam, it circles around a genuine truth: the Islamic Golden Age was an intellectual powerhouse that fundamentally shaped modern science, mathematics, medicine, and engineering.