Namira Salim نمیرا سلیم
Namira Salim is a Pakistani polar adventurer, astronaut and artist. She is the first Pakistani to have reached both the North Pole and the South Pole. Full Name: Namira Salim…
Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari علي بن سهل الربان الطبري
Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari wrote one of the first Islamic encyclopedia of medicine titled Firdaws al-Hikmah. Full Name: Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari . Arabic: علي بن سهل الربان…
Abu Zayd al-Balkhi ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی
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…
al-Farabi الفارابي
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:…
Shajarat al-Durr شجرة الدر
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…
Amah al-Wahid أمة الوحيد
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:…
Zubayda bint Abu Ja’far al-Mansur زبيدة بنت جعفر
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:…
Ulugh Beg الغ بیگ
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…
Ali Qushji علي قوشجي
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).…
al-Kindi الكندي
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…