Full Name: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī . Arabic: أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني Born: 893 AD Died: 947 AD. Origin: Sanaa, Yemen Famous for: Historian, Geographer and Astronomer. Contributions: Kitab al-Jawharatayn al-ʻatīqatayn Sifat Jazirat ul-Arab (صفة جزيرة العرب) Kitāb al-Iklīl min akhbār al-Yaman wa-ansāb Ḥimyar (الإكليل من أخبار…
He is sometimes referred to as the “Herodotus of the Arabs” Full Name: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Masʿūdī. Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بن الحسين بن علي المسعودي Born: 896 AD Died: 956 AD. Origin: Baghdad, Iraq. Famous for: Historian, Geographer and Traveler. Contributions: Author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic…
Full Name: Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Miskawayh al-Rāzī. Arabic: أبو علي أحمد بن محمد بن يعقوب مسكويه الرازي Born: 932 AD Died: 1030AD. Origin: Iran. Famous for: History, Theology, medicine, ethics and philosophy. Contributions: He was the author of the first major Islamic work on philosophical ethics entitled the Refinement of Character…
Full Name: Abu’l-Barakāt Hibat Allah ibn Malkā al-Baghdādī . Arabic: أبو البركات هبة الله بن ملكا البغدادي Other Names: Baruch ben Malka, Nathanel. Born: 1080 AD. Died: 1164 AD. Origin: Balad (near Mosul, present-day Iraq). Famous for: Philosopher, Physician and Physicist. Contributions: He proposed an explanation of the acceleration of falling bodies by the accumulation…
A physician called Abdalmalik ben Abgar al-Kinānī from Kufa in Iraq is supposed to have worked at the medical school of Alexandria before he joined ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz’s court. ʿUmar transferred the medical school from Alexandria to Antioch.
Farisi was a pupil of the astronomer and mathematician Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, who in turn was a pupil of Nasir al-Din Tusi. Full Name: Kamal al-Din Hasan ibn Ali ibn Hasan al-Farisi . Arabic: كمالالدين فارسی Other Names: Abu Hasan Muhammad ibn Hasan. Born: 1267 AD. Died: 1319 AD. Origin: Persia. Famous for: Mathmetician, Physician.…
Imam Ali al-Rida is the Eighth Imam of Twelver Shi’ism, succeeding his father, Imam Musa al-Kazim. Full Name: Ali ibn Musa al-Rida. Arabic: عَلِيّ ٱبْن مُوسَىٰ ٱلرِّضَا Other Names: Abū al-Ḥasan al-Thānī. Born: 766 AD. Died: 818 AD. Origin: Medina, Hejaz, Abbasid Caliphate. Famous for: Eighth Imam of Shi’ism. Contributions: In addition to Shia authorities,[1][17]…
Najib ad-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Umar Samarqandi was a 13th-century Persian physician from Samarqand. Full Name: Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī. Arabic: نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي Born: Died: 1222AD. Origin: Samarqand, Persia. Famous for: Physician. Contributions: His most famous book was…
Full Name: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al‐Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al‐Jūzjānī. Arabic: أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني Born: Died: 1070AD. Origin: Guzgan, Persia. Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: He aided Ibn Sīnā with the compilation of the Cure (al‐Shifāʾ). Added the sections on geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music from Ibn Sīnā’s earlier works to…
Zaynab al-Awadiyyah, sometimes spelled as al-Awadiyyah or al-Awdiyah) Also known as Zaynab of Banu Awd (Arabic: زينب طبيبة بني أود) was a 7th-century Arab physician and expert oculist. She was a member of the Arab tribe of Banu Awd. As a proficient medical practitioner, she was widely renowned among the Arabs due to her expertise…
