Ibn al-Nafis has been described as “the father of circulatory physiology”. Full Name: Alāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥazm al-Qarashī. Arabic: علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بنأبي حزم القرشي Born: 1210-1213 AD. Died: 1288 AD. Origin: Damascus, Ayyubid Sultanate. Famous for: Medicine, Surgery, Physiology, Anatomy, Biology, Islamic studies, Jurisprudence, and Philosophy. Contributions: He…
Full Name: Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb Miskawayh al-Rāzī. Arabic: أبو علي أحمد بن محمد بن يعقوب مسكويه الرازي Born: 932 AD Died: 1030AD. Origin: Iran. Famous for: History, Theology, medicine, ethics and philosophy. Contributions: He was the author of the first major Islamic work on philosophical ethics entitled the Refinement of Character…
Full Name: Abu’l-Barakāt Hibat Allah ibn Malkā al-Baghdādī . Arabic: أبو البركات هبة الله بن ملكا البغدادي Other Names: Baruch ben Malka, Nathanel. Born: 1080 AD. Died: 1164 AD. Origin: Balad (near Mosul, present-day Iraq). Famous for: Philosopher, Physician and Physicist. Contributions: He proposed an explanation of the acceleration of falling bodies by the accumulation…
Imam Ali al-Rida is the Eighth Imam of Twelver Shi’ism, succeeding his father, Imam Musa al-Kazim. Full Name: Ali ibn Musa al-Rida. Arabic: عَلِيّ ٱبْن مُوسَىٰ ٱلرِّضَا Other Names: Abū al-Ḥasan al-Thānī. Born: 766 AD. Died: 818 AD. Origin: Medina, Hejaz, Abbasid Caliphate. Famous for: Eighth Imam of Shi’ism. Contributions: In addition to Shia authorities,[1][17]…
Ibn Khaldun is considered by many as the father of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies. Full Name: Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī. Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي Born: 1332 AD. Died: 1406 AD. Origin: Tunis, Hafsid Sultanate. Famous for: Sociologist, Philosopher, and Historian. Contributions: He…
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 الطبري Born: 838 AD. Died: 870 AD. Origin: Amol, Iran. Famous for: Scholar, Physician and Psychologist,. Contributions: One of the first Islamic encyclopedia of medicine…
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: Alpharabius Born: 870 AD. Died: 950 AD. Origin: Faryab, Khorasan or Farab, Transoxiana. Famous for: Islamic philosopher . Contributions: He has been designated as “Father…
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). Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: The founding of Sahn-ı Seman Medrese, one of the first centers for the study of various traditional Islamic sciences…
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 Names: al-Kindi, Alkindus Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي Born: c. 801 . Died: c. 873 . Origin: Kufa, Abbasid Caliphate (now in…
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: صدر الشريعة الأصغر Other Names: Sadr al-Shari’a al-Thani, Sadr al-Shari’a al-Asghar. Born: Died: 1346 AD. Origin: Kazerun, Iran. Famous for: Astronomer and Muslim Scholar. Contributions: …
