Fakhr al-Din al-Razi فخر الدين الرازي
Full Name: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī . Arabic: فخر الدين الرازي Other Names: Fakhruddin Razi Born: 1149 or 1150 (543 or 544 AH) Died: 1209 (606 AH, aged 59 or 60).…
Ibn al-Nafis ابن النفيس
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…
Ibn Miskawayh ابن مسكويه
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:…
Abu’l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī أبو البركات البغدادي
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:…
Imam Ali ibn Musa al-Ridha الامام علي بن موسى الرضا
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…
Ibn Khaldun ابن خلدون
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…
Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari علي بن سهل الربان الطبري
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…
al-Farabi الفارابي
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:…
Ali Qushji علي قوشجي
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).…
al-Kindi الكندي
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…