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This is a list of ] scientists and scholars from the ] and Spain (]) who lived from ] up until the beginning of the ], consisting primarily of scholars during the ]. In some cases, their exact ancestry is unclear.

Both the Arabic and Latin names are given. The following Muslim naming articles are not used for indexing:
:* ''Al'' - the
:* ''ibn'', ''bin'', ''banu'' - son of
:* ''abu'' - father of, the one with

To maintain consistency and keep the list easy to navigate, please follow the '']'' on the Talk page when adding names.

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== A ==
* ] (1355 or 1356, Nile Delta, Egypt–1418), writer and mathematician
* ] (1408–1471), astronomer
* ] (1162, Baghdad–Iraq–1231), physician, historian and Egyptologist
* ] 17th century Astronomer.
* ] (1187–1268 CE), cryptographer and poets.
* ] ((1192–1262), biographer and historian.
* ] grammarian and linguist
* ] (1085–1138), polymath
* ] (10th century, Baghdad, Iraq), writer and traveler; member of an embassy of the Caliph of Baghdad to the Volga Bulgars
* ] theologian, ascetic, and hadith traditionist.
* ] (1432, Ras al-Khaimah, Oman – 1500, ?), navigator and poet
* ] (835, Baghdad – 912, Egypt), ]
* ] (835, Baghdad – 912, Egypt) (1233–1160) historian and biographer.
* ] (9th century)
* ] (c. 988, Giza, Egypt–1061, Egypt), astronomer and geometer with ]
* ] (1242 - 1296 in Yemen) astronomer and ruler of yemen.
* ] linguists and grammarian
* ] (739, Basra, Iraq–831, Basra, Iraq), pioneer of ], ] and ]
* ] grammarian
* ] (1946-2016), Nobel laureate in ].
* ] (b. 1959)
* ] (c. 850 – c. 930), mathematician
* ] (874–936 CE), Shafi'i scholar and theologian
* ] linguist
* ] (b. 620), physician

== B ==
* ] (980, Baghdad, Iraq – 1037), arithmetic
* ] (1162–1231), physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveler
* ] (?, Basra, Iraq – 1013, Basra, Iraq), theologian, scholar, and Maliki lawyer
* ] (850, Harran, Turkey – 929, Qasr al-Jiss, Iraq), astronomer and mathematician
* ] (d. 892), historian
* ] (1038, 1075) Arab Christian physician

== D ==
* ] (837, Basra, Iraq–934, Baghdad, Iraq), ], ], poet, and ]
* ] (1312–1359/62 CE), cryptologist
* ] (1170-1230), physician
* ] (1256-1327), geographer

== G ==
* ] (1928–1993), geographer

== H ==
* ] (Abû l-Hasan 'Alî ibn Abî l-Rijâl) (? – 1037, Kairouan, Tunisia), ], best known for his ''Kitāb al-bāri' fi ahkām an-nujūm''
* ] islamic scholar
* ](803 A.D - 871 A.D) Egyptian historian.
* ] 8th century Alchemist.
* ] (943, Baghdad, Iraq – 969, ?), writer, geographer, and chronicler
* ] (b. 1935, Cairo, Egypt), professor and chair of philosophy at Cairo University
* ] (died 1295), chemist and engineer
* ] (893, Yemen – 945, Sanaa, Yemen), geographer, historian and astronomer
* ] (1122, Baghdad, Iraq – 1213), physician, scientist and author of a medical compendium
* ] (b. 1991, Mecca, Saudi Arabia), medical scientist, known for making major contributions to point-of-care medical testing and biotechnology
* ] (d. 1174 CE), physician, musician and astrologer
* ] (d. 13 AH/634–35), physician
* ] (d. 13 AH/634–35), physician
* ] (12th century), traveler, merchant and sailor
* ] (d. 819) historian.
* ] (d. 835) historian and biographer.
* ] (809 – 873) arab Christian scholar, physician, and a scientist

== I ==
* ] '''اخوان الصفا وخلان الوفا''' (The Brethren of Purity) (], Iraq), a group of ] Arabic philosophers of the 10th century
* ] (1099, Ceuta, Maghreb – 1166 CE, Sicily), ] and ]
* ] (d. AD 735), earliest known grammarian of the ]
* ] (965–1040), physicist
* ] (1165–1240), Islamic scholar and philosopher
* ] (1100 – 1165), geographer, cartographer and Egyptologist
* ] (c. 830 – c. 910-1), physician and translator
* ] theologian

== J ==
* ] (821–915), polymath who is considered the father of chemistry; emphasized systematic experimentation, and did much to free alchemy from superstition and turn it into a science
* ] theologian and Alchemist
* ] (776, Basra, Iraq – 869, Basra, Iraq), ], ] and author
* ] heresiographer, historian,hagiographer and philologis
* ] grammarian and philologist
* ] (d. c. 915), Mu'tazili theologian and philosopher
* ] (11th century), physician

== K ==
* ] (c. 718, Oman – c. 791), writer and ], compiled the first dictionary of the ], the ''Kitab al-Ayn''
* ] (777 A.D–854 A.D) Arab historian.
* ] (1313–1374) polymath, poet, writer, historian, philosopher, physician
* ] islamic scholar and historian
* ] (c.770 - c.835), astrologer and a student of ].
* ] (c. 801, Kufa, Iraq – 873, Bahgdad, Iraq), ], ], ], ] and ]
* ] (1332, Tunis – 1406, Cairo, Egypt)
* ] (d. 704) an Umayyad prince and alchemist
* ] (c.770 – c.835), astrologer
* ] (fl. 930 CE), physician

== M ==
* ] (b. 1933)
* ] theologian, and hadith traditionist.
* ] (c.1236) was a medieval Muslim metallurgist, chemist and sociologist
* ], 10th-century female astronomer and maker of astrolabes
* ] (1256 – c. 1321), mathematician, astronomer, Islamic scholar, Sufi, and astrologer.
* ] (359–1447 CE) mathematician and astronomer.
* ] ( 896–956), historian, geographer and philosopher, traveled to Spain, Russia, India, ] and China, spent his last years in ] and ]
* ] theologian
* ] (973 – 1057, Ma'arra (المعرة) in ]), blind Arab ], poet and writer
* ] (1364–1442) historian.
* ] lexicographer and linguist
* ] (d. 1266) astronomer.
* ] grammarian and linguis
* ] (946 CE, Jerusalem, Palestine–), medieval Arab ], author of ''Ahsan at-Taqasim fi Ma`rifat il-Aqalim'' (''The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions'')
* ] (1423 – 1506), astronomer and mathematician
* ] (died 796 or 806) Muslim philosopher, mathematician and astronomer.
* ] (11th century), mathematician
* ] (11th century) Mechanical engineer and inventor
* ] (1480–1550), geographer
* ] (1456–1522), qadi and historian.

== N ==
* ] (1213, Damascus, Syria – 1288, Cairo, Egypt), ] and author, the first to describe ], compiled a medical encyclopedia and wrote numerous works on other subjects
* ] grammarian
* ] hadith scholar
* ] grammarian
* ] (1279 – died 1333) historian and encyclopedist.

== O ==

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== Q ==
* ] (died 967), astrologer and mathematician.
* ](died 974 CE) the official historian of the Fatimid caliphs.
* ] (1083–1149), biographer and historian.
* ] (1412–1486) mathematician from Al-Andalus specializing in Islamic inheritance jurisprudence.
* ] islamic scholar
* ] theologian.
* ] (c. 1071 – 1160) chronicler and historian.
* ] (826, Harran, Turkey – 902), mathematician, physician, astronomer, and translator
* ] (1233–1286), muhaddith and faqih.
* ] (died 8 November 977) Andalusian historian.
* ] (1233–1286), physician
* ] (1203–1283), physician, astronomer, geographer

== R ==
* ] theologian and philosopher
* ] (9th century), physician

== S ==
* ] (died in 1035), astronomer
* ] (1029–1070), astronomer, historian and philosopher.
* ] 10th century astronomer
* ] (1917 – 1952)
* ] (c. 1068 -1134) astronomer, physician and alchemist
* ] islamic scholar
* ] (1428 - 1497) hadith scholar and historian.
* ] (1304, Damascus – 1375, Syria, Damascus), astronomer, mathematician, engineer and inventor, worked at the ] in Damascus, Syria, developed an original astronomical model
* ] (784 CE-845 CE) scholar and Arabian biographer.
* ] Twelver Shia theologian
* ] father of Muslim international law
* ] lexicographer and collector of Arabic poetry
* ] grammarian and lexicographer
* ] (died 1283 CE) astronomer, astrologer and mathematician
* ] (1177–1241), physician and botanist

== T ==
* ] (?, Suhar, Oman – 1033 CE, Valencia, Spain), ] and author of an encyclopedia of medicine
* ] (1105, Granada, Spain – 1185, Marrakech, Morocco), Andalusian writer, novelist, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, astronomer, vizier, and court official
* ], 10th-century physician from ]
* ] 10th-century alchemist and mystic
* ] (7th century), physician

== U ==
* ] (920, Damascus, Syria – 980, Damascus, Syria), wrote two works on arithmetic, may have anticipated the invention of decimals
* ] (1095–1188, Damascus, Syria), Arab historian, politician, and diplomat
* ] (1203–1270, ], Syria), ] and ], wrote ''Uyun al-Anba fi Tabaqat al-Atibba'' (''Lives of the Physicians'')
* ] (1400, Spain – 1489, Damascus, Syria), mathematician, wrote works on mensuration and arithmetic
* ] (7th century), physician

== W ==
* ] (Yemen, ? – Syria, Damscus, 709), poet, famous for his erotic and romantic poems
* ] (1292-1342), historian
* ] theologian and founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought.

== Y ==
* ] (b, 1965, Amman, Jordan), ] professor at the University of California, Berkeley
* ] (c. 950–1009), mathematician and astronomer
* ] (1179–1229), biographer and geographer
* ] (d. 897-898), geographer
* ] islamic scholar

== Z ==
* ] (936, Cordoba, Spain – 1013, Cordoba, Spain), Islam's greatest medieval ], wrote comprehensive medical texts combining Middle-Eastern, Indian and Greco-Roman classical teachings, shaped European surgical procedures until the ], considered the "father of ]", wrote '']'', a thirty-volume collection of ]
* ] (1028, Spain – 1087, ? CE), ], influential ], and instrument maker, contributed to the famous ]
* ] islamic scholar and inventor
* ] (1091, Seville, Spain – 1161, Seville, Spain), prominent ] of the Medieval Islamic period
* ] (d. 897/8), geographer

== Notes ==
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== See also ==
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