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Revision as of 03:46, 30 October 2015 by Kaviraus (talk | contribs) (→U: Fixed typo, Fixed grammar)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)This is a list of 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
To maintain consistency and keep the list easy to navigate, please follow the Entries Format for the List of Arab scientists and scholars on the Talk page when adding names.
Contents:
A
- Ahmad al-Qalqashandi (1355 or 1356, Nile Delta, Egypt – 1418) writer and mathematician
- Avempace - See Ibn Bajjah (1085 – 1138) polymath
- Abulcasis - See Al-Zahrawi (936 - 1013) philosopher, doctor and dentist
- Ahmad ibn Majid (1432, Ras al-Khaimah, Oman - 1500,?) navigator and poet
- Ahmed ibn Yusuf (835, Baghdad - 912, Egypt) - mathematician
- Ali Ben Isa (9th century)
- Ali ibn Ridwan (c. 988, Giza, Egypt - 1061) astronomer and geometer with Khalid Ben Abdulmelik
- Al-Asma'i (739, Basra, Iraq - 831, Basra, Iraq) pioneer of zoology, botany and animal husbandry
- Abubacer - See Ibn Tufail (1105 -1185) writer, novelist, Islamic philosopher, Islamic theologian, physician, astronomer, vizier, and court official.
- Ahmed Zewail - See Ahmed Zewail
- Al-Rodhan Nayef - See Nayef Al-Rodhan
G
- Gamal Hemdan (Feary 2, 1928 - April 17, 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
- Hassan Hanafi (born 1935 in Cairo, Egypt) professor and chair of philosophy at Cairo University
- Al-Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Matar (786 – 833) mathematician
- Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī (893, Yemen - 945, Sanaa, Yemen) geographer, historian and astronomer
- Hayat Sindi "(Mecca,SaudiArabia)" medical scientist, She is famous for making major contributions to point-of-care medical testing and biotechnology
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 (died AD 735) the earliest known grammarian of the Arabic language
J
- al-Jazari "(1136–1206) - described 100 mechanical device
- Ibn Al-Jazzar (10th century, Qairwan, Tunis) influential 10th century physician and author
- Al-Jahiz (776, Basra, Iraq - 869, Basra, Iraq) historian, biologist and author
- Al-Jawhari, Abu Alabbas (ca. 800-860) mathematician
- Ibn Jubayr (1145, Valencia, Spain - 1217, Egypt) geographer, traveller and poet, known for his detailed travel journals
K
- Al-Khalili (1320, Damascus, Syria - 1380, Damascus, Syria) an astronomer who compiled extensive tables for astronomical use
- Khalil ibn Ahmad (c. 718, Oman – c. 791) writer and philologist, compiled the first dictionary of the Arabic language, the Kitab al-Ayn
- Ibn Khaldun (May 27, 1332, Tunis - March 19, 1406, Cairo, Egypt)
L
- Labīd ibn rabi'a (c. 560 – c. 661) Arabian poet.
O
- Omar M. Yaghi (1965, Amman, Jordan - Present) Chemist Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
Q
- Thābit ibn Qurra "(826, Harran, Turkey - 902)" mathematician, physician, astronomer, and translator
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.
W
- Waddah al-Yaman (Yemen,? - Syria,Damscus,709) poet, famous for his erotic and romantic poems
Y
- Ibn Yunus "(c. 950-1009) - mathematician and astronomer
- Yusuf al-Mutamin mathematician, wrote Kitab al-Istikmal (Book of Perfection) in mathematics
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
- Ibn Zuhr (1091, Seville, Spain - 1161, Seville, Spain) prominent physician of the Medieval Islamic period
Notes
See also
- Islamic science
- List of Muslim scientists
- List of Iranian scientists and scholars
- List of famous Arabs