Ibn al-Shatir ابن الشاطر
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.…
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.…
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…
A number of books are attributed to Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi written about astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory, philosophy and Sufism. Full Name: Qotb al-Din Mahmoud b. Zia al-Din Mas'ud…
Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar authored of a number of influential works in the Hanafi school of thoughts. Full Name: Ubayd-Allah b. Mas'ud b. Mahmud b. Ahmad b. 'Ubayd-Allah al-Mahbubi al-Bukhari. Arabic:…
Ibn Sirin is notable for his book Dreams and Interpretations. Full Name: Muhammad Ibn Sirin. Arabic: محمد بن سيرين Born: 654 AD. Died: 728 AD. Origin: Basra, Rashidun Caliphate (present-day…
Full Name: Maryam Al-Zinyani. Persian: مريم الزينياني Other Names: Maryam bint Abdullah al-Hawary. Born: Died: 758 CE. ? Origin: Kairouan, Tunisia? Famous for: Poet and Chemist Contributions: Articles https://muslimheritage.com/people/scholars/maryam-al-zinyani/…
al-Urdi was one of the major figures of Islamic astronomy in the 13th century, developing new and highly sophisticated planetary theories as well as invention of many astronomical instruments. Full…
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi is often considered the creator of trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right.. Full Name: Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi. Other Names: Nasir al-Din…
Al-Tusi has been credited with proposing the idea of a function in Mathematics. Full Name: Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ṭūsī. Other Names: Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi Arabic: شرفالدین…
The first astronomer to present the concentric spheres model as an alternative to the Ptolemaic system. Full Name: Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji. Other Names: Alpetragius Arabic: نور الدين ابن إسحاق البطروجي…