Al-Balkhi is believed to have been the first to diagnose that mental illness can have psychological and physiological causes. Full Name: Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi . Arabic: ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی Born: 850 AD. Died: 934 AD. Origin: Shamistiyan, Balkh, Khorasan (modern day northern Afghanistan). Famous for: Geographer, Mathematician, Physician, Psychologist…
He has been designated as “Father of Islamic Neoplatonism” and the “Founder of Islamic Political Philosophy”. Full Name: Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi . Arabic: أبو نصر محمد الفارابي Other Names: Alpharabius Born: 870 AD. Died: 950 AD. Origin: Faryab, Khorasan or Farab, Transoxiana. Famous for: Islamic philosopher . Contributions: He has been designated as “Father…
She became The Sultana of Egypt in 1250, marking the end of the Ayyubid reign and the start of the Mamluk era. Full Name: Shajarat al-Durr . Arabic: شجرة الدر Other Names: Shajar al-Durr, al-Malika ʿAṣmat ad-Dīn ʾUmm-Khalīl Shajar ad-Durr Born: Died: 1257 AD. Origin: Turkic or Armenian. Famous for: The Sultana of Egypt. Contributions: …
She was a well known teacher and scholar of the Quran and was allowed to make juridical verdicts. Full Name: Amah al-Wahid . Other Names: Sutayah Arabic: أمة الوحيد Born: Died: 988 AD. Origin: Baghdad, Abbasid Empire. Famous for: Jurist. Contributions: She used to make juridical verdicts (fatwas) according to Shafi’s School of thoughts. Her…
She is particularly remembered for the series of wells, reservoirs and artificial pools that provided water for Muslim pilgrims along the route from Baghdad to Mecca and Medina. Full Name: Zubaidah bint Ja`far ibn al-Mansur. Arabic: زبيدة بنت جعفر بن المنصور Born: 765 AD. Died: 831 AD. Origin: Al-Iraq, Abbasid Empire. Famous for: Generosity. Contributions: …
Full Name: Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh . Arabic: میرزا محمد طارق بن شاہ رخ Other Names: Ulugh Beg Born: 1394 AD. Died: 1449 AD. Origin: Sultaniyeh, Timurid Empire (now Zanjan Province, Iran). Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: He built the great Ulugh Beg Observatory in Samarkand between 1424 and 1429. He built the…
Full Name: Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed . Arabic: علاء الدين علي بن محمد Other Names: Ulugh Beg Born: 1403 AD. Died: 1474 AD. Origin: Samarkand, Timurid Empire (now Uzbekistan). Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: The founding of Sahn-ı Seman Medrese, one of the first centers for the study of various traditional Islamic sciences…
Al-Kindi was also one of the fathers of cryptography, introduced several new methods of breaking ciphers, notably frequency analysis. Full Name: Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī . Other Names: al-Kindi, Alkindus Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي Born: c. 801 . Died: c. 873 . Origin: Kufa, Abbasid Caliphate (now in…
Full Name: Abu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn bin Alī bin Ibrāhīm bin Muhammad bin al-Matam al-Ansari. Other Names: Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir. Arabic: ابن الشاطر Born: 1304AD. Died: 1375 AD. Origin: Damascus, Syria. Famous for: Astronomer, Mathematician, and Engineer. Contributions: Constructed a sundial for minaret of Umayyad Mosque in Damascus in 1371/72. Ibn al-Shatir also…
Al-Samarqandī is known as mathematicians for his famous tract Kitāb Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (“Book on the Fundamental Theorems”). Full Name: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī. Arabic: شمس الدین سمرقندی Born: 1250 AD. Died: 1310 AD. Origin: Samarkand, now in Uzbekistan. Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: He wrote Synopsis of Astronomy, and produced a…
