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This is a list of Arab scientists and scholars from the Muslim World and Spain (Al-Andalus) who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age, consisting primarily of scholars during the Middle Ages. 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

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A

• Ahmad al-Qalqashandi (1355 or 1356, Nile Delta, Egypt–1418), writer and mathematician
• 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Wafa'i (1408–1471), astronomer
• Abd el-Latif el-Baghdadi (1162, Baghdad–Iraq–1231), physician, historian and Egyptologist
• Al Achsasi al Mouakket 17th century Astronomer.
• Ibn 'Adlan (1187–1268 CE), cryptographer and poets.
• Ibn al-Adim ((1192–1262), biographer and historian.
• Al-Akhfash al-Akbar grammarian and linguist
• Avempace (1085–1138), polymath
• Ahmad ibn Fadlan (10th century, Baghdad, Iraq), writer and traveler; member of an embassy of the Caliph of Baghdad to the Volga Bulgars
• Ahmad ibn Hanbal theologian, ascetic, and hadith traditionist.
• Ahmad ibn Mājid (1432, Ras al-Khaimah, Oman – 1500, ?), navigator and poet
• Ahmad ibn Yusuf (835, Baghdad – 912, Egypt), mathematician
• Ali ibn al-Athir (835, Baghdad – 912, Egypt) (1233–1160) historian and biographer.
• Ali Ben Isa (9th century)
• Ali ibn Ridwan (c. 988, Giza, Egypt–1061, Egypt), astronomer and geometer with Khalid Ben Abdulmelik
• Al-Ashraf Umar II (1242 - 1296 in Yemen) astronomer and ruler of yemen.
• Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala' linguists and grammarian
• Al-Asma'i (739, Basra, Iraq–831, Basra, Iraq), pioneer of zoology, botany and animal husbandry
• Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali grammarian
• Ahmed Zewail (1946-2016), Nobel laureate in chemistry.
• Nayef Al-Rodhan (b. 1959)
• Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam (c. 850 – c. 930), mathematician
• Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (874–936 CE), Shafi'i scholar and theologian
• Sa'id ibn Aws al-Ansari linguist
• Rufaida Al-Aslamia (b. 620), physician

B

• Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (980, Baghdad, Iraq – 1037), arithmetic
• Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (1162–1231), physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveler
• Al-Baqillani (?, Basra, Iraq – 1013, Basra, Iraq), theologian, scholar, and Maliki lawyer
• Al-Battani (850, Harran, Turkey – 929, Qasr al-Jiss, Iraq), astronomer and mathematician
• Al-Baladhuri (d. 892), historian
• Ibn Butlan (1038, 1075) Arab Christian physician

D

• Ibn Duraid (837, Basra, Iraq–934, Baghdad, Iraq), geographer, genealogist, poet, and philologist
• Ibn al-Durayhim (1312–1359/62 CE), cryptologist
• Al-Dakhwar (1170-1230), physician
• Al-Dimashqi (1256-1327), geographer

G

• Gamal Hamdan (1928–1993), geographer

H

• Haly Abenragel (Abû l-Hasan 'Alî ibn Abî l-Rijâl) (? – 1037, Kairouan, Tunisia), astrologer, best known for his Kitāb al-bāri' fi ahkām an-nujūm
• Ibn Abi'l-Hadid islamic scholar
• Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam(803 A.D - 871 A.D) Egyptian historian.
• Harbi al-Himyari 8th century Alchemist.
• Ibn Hawqal (943, Baghdad, Iraq – 969, ?), writer, geographer, and chronicler
• Hassan Hanafi (b. 1935, Cairo, Egypt), professor and chair of philosophy at Cairo University
• Hasan al-Rammah (died 1295), chemist and engineer
• Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani (893, Yemen – 945, Sanaa, Yemen), geographer, historian and astronomer
• Ibn Hubal (1122, Baghdad, Iraq – 1213), physician, scientist and author of a medical compendium
• Hayat Sindi (b. 1991, Mecca, Saudi Arabia), medical scientist, known for making major contributions to point-of-care medical testing and biotechnology
• Abu al-Majd ibn Abi al-Hakam (d. 1174 CE), physician, musician and astrologer
• Al-Harith ibn Kalada (d. 13 AH/634–35), physician
• Nafi ibn al-Harith (d. 13 AH/634–35), physician
• Abu'l Abbas al-Hijazi (12th century), traveler, merchant and sailor
• Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (d. 819) historian.
• Ibn Hisham (d. 835) historian and biographer.
• Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809 – 873) arab Christian scholar, physician, and a scientist

I

• Ikhwan al-Safa اخوان الصفا وخلان الوفا (The Brethren of Purity) (Basra, Iraq), a group of neo-Platonic Arabic philosophers of the 10th century
• Al-Idrisi (1099, Ceuta, Maghreb – 1166 CE, Sicily), geographer and cartographer
• Ibn Abi Ishaq (d. AD 735), earliest known grammarian of the Arabic language
• Ibn al-Haytham (965–1040), physicist
• Ibn Arabi (1165–1240), Islamic scholar and philosopher
• Muhammad al-Idrisi (1100 – 1165), geographer, cartographer and Egyptologist
• Ishaq ibn Hunayn (c. 830 – c. 910-1), physician and translator
• Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam theologian

J

• Jabir ibn Hayyan (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
• Ja'far al-Sadiq theologian and Alchemist
• Al-Jahiz (776, Basra, Iraq – 869, Basra, Iraq), historian, biologist and author
• Ibn al-Jawzi heresiographer, historian,hagiographer and philologis
• Abu Mansur Mauhub al-Jawaliqi grammarian and philologist
• Al-Jubba'i (d. c. 915), Mu'tazili theologian and philosopher
• Ibn Jazla (11th century), physician

K

• Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (c. 718, Oman – c. 791), writer and philologist, compiled the first dictionary of the Arabic language, the Kitab al-Ayn
• Khalifah ibn Khayyat (777 A.D–854 A.D) Arab historian.
• Ibn al-Khatib (1313–1374) polymath, poet, writer, historian, philosopher, physician
• Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi islamic scholar and historian
• Abu 'Ali al-Khayyat (c.770 - c.835), astrologer and a student of Mashallah.
• Al-Kindi (c. 801, Kufa, Iraq – 873, Bahgdad, Iraq), Arab philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, physician and geographer
• Ibn Khaldun (1332, Tunis – 1406, Cairo, Egypt)
• Khalid bin Yazid (d. 704) an Umayyad prince and alchemist
• Abu 'Ali al-Khayyat (c.770 – c.835), astrologer
• Al-Kaŝkarī (fl. 930 CE), physician

M

• Mostafa El-Sayed (b. 1933)
• Malik ibn Anas theologian, and hadith traditionist.
• Mansur al-Kamili (c.1236) was a medieval Muslim metallurgist, chemist and sociologist
• Mariam al-Asturlabi, 10th-century female astronomer and maker of astrolabes
• Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi (1256 – c. 1321), mathematician, astronomer, Islamic scholar, Sufi, and astrologer.
• Ibn al-Majdi (359–1447 CE) mathematician and astronomer.
• Al-Masudi ( 896–956), historian, geographer and philosopher, traveled to Spain, Russia, India, Sri Lanka and China, spent his last years in Syria and Egypt
• Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi theologian
• Al-Maʿarri (973 – 1057, Ma'arra (المعرة) in Syria), blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer
• Al-Maqrizi (1364–1442) historian.
• Ibn Manzur lexicographer and linguist
• Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī (d. 1266) astronomer.
• Al-Mubarrad grammarian and linguis
• Muhammad Al-Muqaddasi (946 CE, Jerusalem, Palestine–), medieval Arab geographer, author of Ahsan at-Taqasim fi Ma`rifat il-Aqalim (The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions)
• Sibt al-Maridini (1423 – 1506), astronomer and mathematician
• Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī (died 796 or 806) Muslim philosopher, mathematician and astronomer.
• Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud (11th century), mathematician
• Al-Muradi (11th century) Mechanical engineer and inventor
• Sulaiman Al Mahri (1480–1550), geographer
• Mujir al-Din (1456–1522), qadi and historian.

N

• Ibn al-Nafis (1213, Damascus, Syria – 1288, Cairo, Egypt), physician and author, the first to describe pulmonary circulation, compiled a medical encyclopedia and wrote numerous works on other subjects
• Abu Jaʿfar an-Nahhas grammarian
• Al-Nawawi hadith scholar
• Niftawayh grammarian
• Al-Nuwayri (1279 – died 1333) historian and encyclopedist.

O

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Q

• Al-Qabisi (died 967), astrologer and mathematician.
• Al-Qadi al-Nu'man(died 974 CE) the official historian of the Fatimid caliphs.
• Qadi Ayyad (1083–1149), biographer and historian.
• Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qalaṣādī (1412–1486) mathematician from Al-Andalus specializing in Islamic inheritance jurisprudence.
• Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr islamic scholar
• Ibn Qudamah theologian.
• Ibn al-Qalanisi (c. 1071 – 1160) chronicler and historian.
• Thābit ibn Qurra (826, Harran, Turkey – 902), mathematician, physician, astronomer, and translator
• Al-Qurtubi (1233–1286), muhaddith and faqih.
• Ibn al-Qūṭiyya (died 8 November 977) Andalusian historian.
• Ibn al-Quff (1233–1286), physician
• Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203–1283), physician, astronomer, geographer

R

• Fakhr al-Din al-Razi theologian and philosopher
• Al-Ruhawi (9th century), physician

S

• Ibn al-Saffar (died in 1035), astronomer
• Said al-Andalusi (1029–1070), astronomer, historian and philosopher.
• Al-Ṣaidanānī 10th century astronomer
• Sameera Moussa (1917 – 1952)
• Abu al-Salt (c. 1068 -1134) astronomer, physician and alchemist
• Al-Shafi‘i islamic scholar
• Al-Sakhawi (1428 - 1497) hadith scholar and historian.
• Ibn al-Shatir (1304, Damascus – 1375, Syria, Damascus), astronomer, mathematician, engineer and inventor, worked at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, developed an original astronomical model
• Ibn Sa'd (784 CE-845 CE) scholar and Arabian biographer.
• Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid Twelver Shia theologian
• Muhammad al-Shaybani father of Muslim international law
• Abu Amr Ishaq ibn Mirar al-Shaybani lexicographer and collector of Arabic poetry
• Ibn Sidah grammarian and lexicographer
• Ibn Abi al-Shukr (died 1283 CE) astronomer, astrologer and mathematician
• Rashidun al-Suri (1177–1241), physician and botanist

T

• Ibn Al-Thahabi (?, Suhar, Oman – 1033 CE, Valencia, Spain), physician and author of an encyclopedia of medicine
• Ibn Tufail (1105, Granada, Spain – 1185, Marrakech, Morocco), Andalusian writer, novelist, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, astronomer, vizier, and court official
• Muhammad Tamimi, 10th-century physician from Palestine
• Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi 10th-century alchemist and mystic
• Ibn Abi Ramtha al-Tamimi (7th century), physician

U

• Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi (920, Damascus, Syria – 980, Damascus, Syria), wrote two works on arithmetic, may have anticipated the invention of decimals
• Usama ibn Munqidh (1095–1188, Damascus, Syria), Arab historian, politician, and diplomat
• Ibn Abi Usaibia (1203–1270, Damascus, Syria), physician and historian, wrote Uyun al-Anba fi Tabaqat al-Atibba (Lives of the Physicians)
• Yaʿīsh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Umawī (1400, Spain – 1489, Damascus, Syria), mathematician, wrote works on mensuration and arithmetic
• Ibn Uthal (7th century), physician

W

• Waddah al-Yaman (Yemen, ? – Syria, Damscus, 709), poet, famous for his erotic and romantic poems
• Ibn al-Wardi (1292-1342), historian
• Wasil ibn Ata theologian and founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought.

Y

• Omar M. Yaghi (b, 1965, Amman, Jordan), chemistry professor at the University of California, Berkeley
• Ibn Yunus (c. 950–1009), mathematician and astronomer
• Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179–1229), biographer and geographer
• Ya'qubi (d. 897-898), geographer
• Abu Yusuf islamic scholar

Z

• Al-Zahrawi (936, Cordoba, Spain – 1013, Cordoba, Spain), Islam's greatest medieval surgeon, wrote comprehensive medical texts combining Middle-Eastern, Indian and Greco-Roman classical teachings, shaped European surgical procedures until the Renaissance, considered the "father of surgery", wrote Al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume collection of medical practice
• Al-Zarqali (1028, Spain – 1087, ? CE), mathematician, influential astronomer, and instrument maker, contributed to the famous Tables of Toledo
• Zayn al-Din al-Amidi islamic scholar and inventor
• Ibn Zuhr (1091, Seville, Spain – 1161, Seville, Spain), prominent physician of the Medieval Islamic period
• Al-Zuhri (d. 897/8), geographer

Notes

See also

• Islamic science
• List of Muslim scientists
• List of Iranian scientists and scholars
• List of famous Arabs
• List of Turkic scholars

• Lists of scientists
• Scientists of medieval Islam
• Arab scientists
• Arab culture
• Lists of Arab people
• Lists of scientists by nationality