Piri Reis بيري ريس
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:…
Contribution of eminent Muslims, who studied the Earth’s natural environment and human society and there interactions.
Ibn Jubayr ابن جبير
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…
Ahmad ibn Fadlan أحمد بن فضلان
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.…
Muhammad al-Idrisi محمد الإدريسي
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,…
Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني
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…
al-Masudi المسعودي
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…
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…
Kushyar Gilani کوشیار دیلمی
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…
Abu Hanifa Dinawari
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:…
Al-Khwarizmi الخوارزمي
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…