Amazing_Goob that's not true; this is a propaganda technique called the white legend.
the Islamic empire pre caliphate inquisition was not more advanced than the rest. Their contributions where mostly in the form of preserving information that was lost else where due to war an plagues causing mass de-population of the surrounding areas.
an there are mis-translations and etc. in the copies the Islamic empire made (kinda like how the old testament was re-written at least 3-4 different times because the Hebrew language its self died out an was reborn several times. not exactly obviously.)
also its important to note the ottoman empire was not the Islamic empire there is a difference.
as for ottomons themselves not really the Europeans had cannons an early gun powder weapons as well around the time the ottomans started their colonization an conquest of the surrounding regions. an on several occasions they were beaten by European colonist who were mostly cut off from the rest of Europe an severly lacked the weapons or similar weapons the ottomans had.