Full Name: Nusaybah Bint Ka’ab Al Maziniyyah. Arabic: نَسيبة بنت كعب Other Names: Umm ʿAmmarah, Umm Umara, Umm Marah. Origin: Makkah. Died: 13th Hijri year and was buried in Al Baqi in Makkah. Famous for: The First Woman Warrior in Islam. Companion (Sahabiyyah) of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ Contribution: Nusaybah and Umm Munee Asma bint…
Full Name: Lubna of Córdoba. Arabic: لبنى القرطبية Other Names: Lubna al-Katib. Origin: Madinat al-Zahra, Cordoba, Spain. Born: 927 AD. Died: 10th Century. Famous for: Intellectual, mathematician, and poet. Contribution: Manuscript copyist for the library of Al-Hakam II. Lubna was also in charge of the Library of Cordoba. She was the driving force behind the…
Full Name: Anousheh Ansari Arabic: انوشه انصاری Other Names: née Raissyan Origin: Iranian American engineer. Born: Sep 12, 1966 Famous for:The first Iranian in space. She was the fourth overall self-funded space tourist, and the first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station. Contribution: Co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. Co-founder and CEO…
Full Name: Fatima Al-Majritiya. Daughter of Abu al-Qasim Maslama ibn Ahmad al-Majriti. Other Names: Fatima of Madrid. Arabic: فاطمة المجريطي Origin: Andalus, Spain. Born: 950 AD. Died: 1007 AD. Famous for: Astronomy and Mathematics. Contribution: Contributions to observational astronomy. “the Corrections of Fatima“, which included amendments to her father’s discoveries in astronomy and mathematics. Fatimah…
Full Name: Samira Ibrahim Islam. Arabic: سميرة إسلام Origin: al-Hafuf, al-Ahsaa, Saudi Arabia. Famous for: First Saudi full professor in Pharmacology in 1983 . She is the first Saudi woman to obtain Bachelor and Ph.D degrees. First Saudi woman to become a professor of pharmacology. She is also the first to introduce formal university education…
Full Name: Abū Naṣr al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Munajjim al-Qummī Arabic: أبو الحسن علي ابن أبي الرجال Other Names: Haly, Hali, Albohazen Haly filii Abenragel or Haly Abenragel Born: Origin: Ghazni, Persia Now Afghanistan Died: 1037 A.D. Famous for: Astrology Contributions: His Kitāb al-bāri’ fī aḥkām an-nujūm Articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haly_Abenragel#References
Full Name: Abu Nasri Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraq al-Jaʿdī. Arabic: أبو نصر منصور بن علی بن عراق Born: 960 AD. Origin: Ghazni, Persia Now Afghanistan. Died: 1036 A.D. Famous for: His work with the spherical sine law. Contributions: Commentary on the Spherics by Menelaus. He preserved the writings of Menelaus of Alexandria and reworked…
Full Name: Al-Shifāʾ bint ʿAbd Allāh. Arabic: الشفاء بنت عبد الله Other Names: Laylā. Origin: Hejaz, Arabia. Born: Died: 20 Hijri. Famous for: She practiced folk medicine in Mecca. At a time when barely twenty people in Mecca could read-write, Al-Shifaa was the first woman to acquire this skill. She taught calligraphy to many others,…
Full Name: Rufayda Al-Aslamia. Arabic: رفيدة الأسلمية Other Names: Rufaida Al-Aslamiya or Rufaydah bint Sa`ad. Origin: Hejaz, Arabia. Born: 620 AD. Died: Famous for: First female Muslim nurse and the first female surgeon in Islam. Contribution: She trained other women, Including the famous female companions of Muhammad (SAW), Ayesha (RA) She assisted children in need and…
Full Name: Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil Arabic: بورسين موتلو باكديل Origin: Istanbul, Turkey Born: Famous for: Astrophysicist Contribution: Her research led to a discovery of an extremely rare galaxy with a unique double-ringed elliptical structure, which is now commonly referred to as Burcin’s Galaxy Awards and honours NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow KICP Fellow 2020 TED Senior…
