Contribution of eminent Muslims, who studied the Earth’s natural environment and human society and there interactions.
He gained fame as a cartographer when a small part of his first world map, prepared in 1513, was discovered in 1929 at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. Full Name: Ahmed Muhiddin Piri Arabic: أحمد محي الدين بيري Other Names: Turkish: Pîrî Reis or Hacı Ahmet Muhittin Pîrî Bey Born: 1465 AD Died: 1553 AD.…
Full Name: Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Jubayr al-Kinānī Arabic: أبو الحسين محمد بن أحمد بن جبيرالكناني Other Names: Ibn Jubair, Ibn Jobair, and Ibn Djubayr Born: 1145 AD Died: 1217 AD. Origin: Valencia, Taifa of Valencia, now Province of Valencia, Spain. Famous for: Geographer, Traveller and Poet Contributions: His writing is a foundation…
Full Name: Ahmad ibn Fadlan ibn al-Abbas al-Baghdadi Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بنراشد بن حماد Born: 10th Century Died: Origin: Baghdad, Iraq. Famous for: Islamic jurisprudence and Traveler. Contributions: Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/Saint_Mary’s_College_(Notre_Dame_IN)/Humanistic_Studies/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan_and_the_Rus_(Vikings) https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199906/among.the.norse.tribes-the.remarkable.account.of.ibn.fadlan.htm https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ibn-fadlan-arab-among-vikings-russia Books attributed to ibn Fadlan
Full Name: Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti. Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي القرطبي الحسني السبتي Other Names: Dreses, al-Idrisi Born: 1100 AD. Died: 1165 AD. Origin: Ceuta, Almoravid dynasty, present-day Spain. Famous for: Geographer and Cartographer . Contributions: Tabula Rogeriana, one of the most advanced medieval world maps. Kitab nuzhat al-mushtaq fi’khtiraq…
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…
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…
Full Name: Abul-Hasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān ibn Bashahri Daylami. Arabic: کوشیار دیلمی Other Name: Kūshyār Daylami. Origin: Daylam, Iran. Born: 971 AD. Died: 1,029 AD. Famous for: Astronomer, Mathematician and Geographer Contribution: Improved values of the planetary apogees Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushyar_Gilani https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ASPC..520..185B/abstract https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/860481
Full Name: Abu Hanifa Ahmad ibn Dawud Dinawari Arabic: ابوحنيفه دينوری Origin: Dinawar in modern-day western Iran Dies: 895 AD Famous for: Astronomer, Agriculturist, Botanist, Metallurgist, Geographer, Mathematician, and Historian Contribution: Iranian and Islamic history Al-Dinawari is considered the founder of Arabic botany Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Hanifa_Dinawari https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Dinawari https://iranicaonline.org/articles/dinavari-abu-hanifa-ahmad Books attributed to Abu Hanifa Dinawari
Al-Khwarizmi has been described as the father or founder of Algebra Full Name: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Arabic: محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي Born: 780AD Origin: Iran (Persia) Dies: 850 AD Famous for: Algebra and the Hindu–Arabic numeral system Contribution: First person to treat algebra as an independent discipline The first systematic solution of linear and…
