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	This is a list of scientists and scholars associated with the ] and Islamic Spain (]) that lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age. In some cases, their exact ancestry in unclear. They may have emigrated or immigrated, and thus may appear in other "Lists of...", but nevertheless their names and work are somehow linked to the words "Arab", and "Arabic".

	'''Notice:'''
	* Both the Arabic and Latin names are given.
	* The following Arabic articles are not used for indexing:
	**''Al'' - the
	**''ibn'', ''bin'', ''banu'' - son of
	**''abu'' - father of, the one with
	* When entering new names: to make the list overlookable and easy to navigate please try to follow the .

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	== A ==
	* ] ''(810, Spain, Córdoba - 887 CE, Spain, Córdoba)''
	:Humanitarian, technologist, and chemist. He was the first man in history to make a scientific attempt at flying. Ibn Firnas Airport to the north of Baghdad is named after him.
	* ]
	:See Ibn Tufail.
	* ]
	:See Al-Zahrawi.
	*] ''(1432, Ras al-Khaimah, Oman - 1500,?)''
	:Was one of the most famous Arab navigators. He became famous in the West as the navigator who has been associated with helping Vasco da Gama find his way from Africa to India. He was the author of nearly 40 works of poetry and prose. His most important work was ] (Book of Useful Information on the Principles and Rules of Navigation), written in ].
	* ]
	:See Ibn al-Haitham.
	* ] ''(c. 830, Córdoba, Spain - ?, Spain )''
	:He made one of the earliest examples of a ].
	*]
	:See Al-Zarqali.
	* ] ''(739, Basra, Iraq - 831, Basra, Iraq)''
	:Considered as the first Muslim scientist who contributed to ], ] and ]. His famous writings include ''Kitab al-Ibil'', ''Kitab al-Khalil'', ''Kitab al-Wuhush'', ''Kitab al-Sha'', and ''Kitab Khalq al-Insan''. The last book on human anatomy demonstrates his considerable knowledge and expertise on the subject.
	* ]
	:See Ibn Bajjah.
	* ]
	:See Ibn Rushd.
	* ]
	:See Ibn Zuhr.

	== B ==
	* ] ''(980, Baghdad, Iraq - 1037, ? )''
	:He wrote about different systems of arithmetic in a work of great importance in the history of mathematics.
	* ] ''(1197, Malaga, Spain - 1248, Damascus, Syria)''
	:One of the greatest scientists of Muslim Spain and was the greatest botanist and pharmacist of the Middle Ages.
	* ] ''( ?, Saragossa, Spain - 1138, Fez, Morocco)''
	:He had a vast knowledge of ], ] and ]. His main contribution to ] is his idea on ] ], but unfortunately not completed. He was also the teacher of ].
	* ] ''(1256, Marrakesh, Morocco - 1321, Marrakesh, Morocco)''
	:He wrote a large number of works including an introduction to Euclid's Elements, an algebra text and various works on astronomy.
	* ] ''(?, Basra, Iraq - 1013, Basra, Iraq)''
	:Muslim theologian. He introduced the conceptions of ] and ] into the ]. He extended atomism to time and motion, conceiving them as essentially discontinuous. Once when he entered the court of the Roman Emperor while he was among his Christian monks and priests, he mockingly said to one of the priests: "How are you? How are your family and children?" to illustrate a point.
	* ] ''(850, Harran, Turkey - 929, Qasr al-Jiss, Iraq)
	:His best-known achievement was the determination of the solar year as being 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds.
	:He was able to correct some of ]'s results and compiled new tables of the ] and ], long accepted as authoritative, discovered the movement of the Sun's ], treated the division of the celestial sphere, and introduced, probably independently of the ] ]n astronomer ], the use of ]s in calculation, and partially that of ]s, forming the basis of modern ]. His most important work is the Kitāb al-zīğ (Arabic: كتاب الزيج "the book of tables ).
	* ] ''(February 24, 1304, Tangier, Morocco - 1368 or 1377, Morocco) ''
	:A famous explorer, he began exploring areas in present day southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in 1325 when he was 21 years old. He ventured over land and sea for 22 years, traveling to 44 modern countries, and covering 75,000 miles. Battutah recorded his travels in the Rihla, and was an early and extensive contributor to the field of geography.

	== C ==

	== D ==
	* ] ''(837, Basra, Iraq - 934, Baghdad, Iraq)''
	:He was a ], ], ], and ]. He wrote a large Arabic dictionary, "The Collection on the Language". He also wrote on the genealogy of the Arab tribes.

	== E ==
	== F ==
	* ] ''(897, Isfahan, Iran - 967, Baghdad, Iraq)''
	:Literary scholar who is famous for his ] (]), an encyclopaedic and fundamental work on Arabic songs, composers, poets, and musicians.

	== G ==
	* ]
	:See Jabir ibn Hayyan or Jabir ibn Aflah.

	== H ==
	* ] ''(965, Basra, Iraq - 1040, Cairo, Egypt)''
	:One of the most eminent physicists, whose contributions to optics and the scientific methods are outstanding.
	* ] ''(894, Yemen - 945, Sanaa, Yemen)''
	:Was a geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer, who was one of the best representative of Islamic culture during the last effective years of the Abbasid caliphate.

	*] ''(943, Baghdad,Iraq - 969,? )''
	:He was a writer, geographer, and chronicler. He spent the last 30 years of his life traveling to remote parts of Asia and Africa, writing about the areas and things he had seen. His famous work is Surat al-Ardh (صورة الارض; "The face of the Earth"), where he included a detailed description of ]-held ], ], and the "Lands of the Romans," the term used by the Muslim world to describe the ]. In it, among other things, he gives a description of ], and is said to have mentioned the route of the ] and the ]s, perhaps by ].

	== I ==
	* ] ''(908, Baghdad, Iraq - 946, Baghdad, Iraq)''
	:The son of ]. Was a mathematician and astronomer who studied geometry and in particular tangents to circles. He also made advances in the theory of integration.
	* ] ''(1099, Ceuta, Spain - 1266 CE, Sicily) ''
	:Considered the greatest geographer and cartographer of the middle Ages. Al-Idrisi constructed a world globe map of 400 kg pure silver and precisely recorded on it the seven continents with trade routes, lakes and rivers, major cities, and plains and mountains. His world maps were used in Europa for centuries to come. It is worth mentioning that Christopher Columbus used the world map which was originally taken from Al-Idrisi's work. He also contributed to the science of medicinal plants.
	* ] ''(809-873)'' - Translator, physician.

	== J ==
	* ] ''(1100, Seville, Spain - 1160, ? )
	:Astronomer and mathematician whose translated works in Latin influenced later European mathematicians.

	* ] ''(ca.721, Tus, Iran – ca. 815, Kufa, Iraq)''
	:Considered father of chemistry. He emphasized systematic experimentation, and did much to free alchemy from superstition and turn it into a science.

	* ] ''(776, Basra, Iraq - 869, Basra, Iraq)''
	:He was an Arabic prose writer, ], and author of works of ], ], and politico-religious polemics.

	* ] ''(989, Cordoba, Spain - 1079, Jaen, Spain)''
	:He wrote important commentaries on Euclid's Elements and he wrote the first treatise on spherical trigonometry.

	*] ''(ca. 1200, Al-Jazira, Iraq/Syria - ?,?)''
	:He was was one of history's greatest mechanical engineers. He authored 60 inventions in his book "Al-Jami Bain Al-Ilm Wal-Amal Al-Nafi Fi Sinat'at Al-Hiyal". Among his inventions were the crankshaft and some of the first mechanical clocks, combination lock, and the first recorded design of a a humanoid robot.

	== K ==
	* ] ''(859, Egypt - 930, ?)''
	:He was one of Al-Khwarismi's successors and applied algebraic methods to geometric problems.
	* ] ''(c.801 CE, Kufa, Iraq – 873, Bahgdad, Iraq)''
	:A gifted mathematician, astronomer, physician and a geographer as well as a talented musician. He wrote the first treatise in ].
	* ] ''(May 27, 1332, Tunis - March 19, 1406, Cairo, Egypt)''
	:One of the forerunners of modern ], ] and ]. He is best known for his '']'' "Prolegomena".
	* ] ''( 1320, Damascus, Syria - 1380, Damascus, Syria)''
	:Was an astronomer who compiled extensive tables for astronomical use.

	== L ==
	== M ==
	* ] ''(1220, Spain - 1283, Maragha, Iran)''
	:He was famous for his work on trigonometry.
	* ] ''(740 CE, Basra, Iraq - 815, Basra, Iraq)''
	:He was an Arab Jewish astrologer and astronomer. He participated in the founding of Baghdad in 762 .
	* ] ''( ?, Baghdad, Iraq - 957, Cairo, Egypt)''
	:Was a historian, geographer and philosopher. Born in ], he traveled to ], ], ], ] and ] and spent his last years in ] and ].
	*] ''(972, Basra, Iraq - 1058, Iraq)''
	:He was one of the most famous thinkers in political science in the middle Ages. He was also a great sociologist, jurist, and mohaddith. He served as Chief Justice at Baghdad and as an ambassador of the Abbasid Caliph to several important and powerful Muslim states. Al-Mawardi made original contributions in political science and sociology. In these fields, he wrote three monumental works: ], ], and ]. Al-Mawardi formulated the principles of political science. His books deal with duties of the Caliphs, the chief minister, the cabinet, and the responsibility of and relationship between the government and citizens. He has discussed the affairs of state in both peace and war. ] was his another masterpiece in Ethics. He was the author and supporter of the ].

	* ] ''(ca. 910, ? - 1005, China)''
	:An important astronomer and astrologist who worked as the chief official of the astronomical observatory of the ].

	* ] ''( ca. 800, Baghdad, Iraq - 873, Baghdad, Iraq)''
	:They supervised the translation of Greek scientific works into Arabic and helped to found the Arabic school of mathematics.

	== N ==
	* ]
	:Was a Muslim Shi'ite scholar and bibliographer who is the famous author of ], which is an index of all books written in Arabic by Arabs and non-Arabs.
	* ] ''(1213, Damascus, Syria - 1288, Cairo, Egypt)''
	:Was a physician who is mostly famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood.
	* ] ''(?, Yemen - 1178)''
	:Author of ''Shams al-'ulum'', a lexicographical encyclopedia.

	== O ==
	== P ==
	== Q ==
	* ] ''(1412, Baza, Spain - 1486, Beja, Tunisia)''
	:Mathematician who took the first steps toward the introduction of algebraic symbolism by using letters in place of numbers.

	== R ==
	* ] ''(1126, Cordoba, Spain – December 10, 1198, Marrakesh, Morocco)''
	:A master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics, and medicine. His school of philosophy is known as ].

	* ] ''1872, Nabatiye, Lebanon - 1953, Nabatiye, Lebanon)''
	:A prominent writer and linguist. Wrote "''Matn al-lugha''", first Arabic dictionary since "''Lisan al-Arab''" that was assembled in the ].

	== S ==
	* ] ''(1130, Baghdad, Iraq - 1180, Maragha, Iran)''
	:Mathematician who was able to extend the arithmetic operations to handle polynomials. He used an early form of induction.
	*] ''(1304,? - 1375, Syria, Damascus)''
	:Was an ] who worked as a timekeeper in the Umayyad Mosque. His most famous work was ''kitab nihayat as-sul fi tashih al-usul'' ("A Final Inquiry Concerning the Rectification of Planetary Theory"). In treating the motion of the Moon, he eliminated the need for an ] by introducing an extra ], departing from the ] in a way very similar to what ] later also did. He also proposed a system that was only approximately geocentric, rather than exactly so, having demonstrated trigonometrically that the Earth was not the exact center of the universe. The discovery and the whole concept of planetary motion is attributed to ] and ] while unfairly not crediting the contribution of Ibn Al-Shatir.
	* ] ''(880, Baghdad, Iraq - 880, Baghdad, Iraq)''
	:The son of ] and father of ]. He is more important for his contributions to medicine than to mathematics.

	== T ==
	* ] ''(836, Harran, Turkey - Baghdad, Iraq)''
	:Was an important Islamic mathematician who worked on number theory, astronomy and statics.
	*] ''(?, Suhar, Oman - 1033 CE, Valencia, Spain)''
	:Was a ], famous for his work ] (The Book of Water), which is the first known alphabetical encyclopedia of medicine. In it he lists the names of diseases, its medicine and a physiological process or a treatment, and adds numerous original ideas about the function of the human organs. Indeed, he explains an original idea of how the vision takes place, similar to ]. It also contains a course for the treatment psychological symptoms. The main thesis of his treatment is that the cure must start from controlled food and exercise, and if the symptoms persist then use specific individual medicines.
	* ] ''(c.1105, Guadix, Spain – 1185, Morocco)''
	:He served as a secretary for the ruler of Granada, and later as vizier and physician for Abu Yaqub Yusuf, ruler of Islamic Spain (]) under the Almohad dynasty. He was the author of ] (Arabic: حي بن يقظان ) a philosophical romance and allegorical tale of a man who lives alone on an island and who, without contact with other human beings, discovers the truth by reasonable thinking, and then his shock upon contact with human society's dogmatism and other ills.

	== U ==
	* ] ''(1400, Spain - 1489, Damascus, Syria)''
	:Mathematician who wrote works on mensuration and arithmetic.
	* ] ''(920, Damascus, Syria - 980, Damascus, Syria) ''
	:Wrote two works on arithmetic. He may have anticipated the invention of decimals.

	== V ==
	== W ==
	* ] ''(ca.900)''
	:Alchemist who is claimed to have cracked the ], eight centuries earlier than ]. The achievemnet of cracking this code is famed as a critical moment in code-breaking history.

	== X ==
	== Y ==
	* ] ''(950, Egypt - 1009, Fustat, Egypt)''
	:He was known for his astronomical observations and for his many trigonometrical and astronomical tables.

	== Z ==
	* ] ''(936, Cordoba, Spain - 1013, Cordoba, Spain)''
	:Was Islam's greatest medieval surgeon, whose comprehensive medical texts, combining Middle Eastern and Greco-Roman classical teachings, shaped European surgical procedures until the Renaissance. He is considered the ''Father Of Surgery''. His greatest contribution to history is Al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume collection of medical practice.
	*] ''(1028,Spain - 1087,? CE)''
	:He was a leading mathematician and the foremost astronomer of his time. He excelled at the construction of precision instruments for astronomical use. He constructed a flat astrolabe that was 'universal,' for it could be used at any latitude, and he built a water clock capable of determining the hours of the day and night and indicating the days of the lunar months. He was the first to prove conclusively the motion of the aphelion relative to the fixed background of the stars. He measured its rate of motion as 12.04 seconds per year, which is remarkably close to the modern calculation of 11.8 seconds. He also contributed to the famous ].
	* ] ''(1091, Seville, Spain - 1161, Seville, Spain)''
	:Was one of the most prominent physicians, clinicians and parasitologist of the Middle Ages. He was the first to test different medicines on animals before using them with humans. Also, he was the first to describe in detail ], the ], and is thus regarded as the first ]. He was a practical man and disliked medical speculations. For that reason, he opposed the teachings of ].

	== See also==
	* ]
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