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: Abu Sahl ‘Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi al-Jurjani. Arabic: ابو سهل عيسى بن يحيى مسيحی گرگانی Born: 960 AD. Died: 1010 AD. Origin: Gorgan, east of the Caspian Sea, in Iran. Famous for: Physician. Contributions: al-mā’a fi-l-sanā’a al-tabi’iyyah; Arabic: المائة في الصناعة الطبيعية, which is one of the earliest Arabic works of its kind…
Full Name: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Khālid ibn al-Jazzār al-Qayrawani. Arabic: أبو جعفر أحمد بن أبي خالد بن الجزار القيرواني Other Names: Algizar Born: 895 AD Died: 979 AD. Origin: Kairouan, now Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia. Famous for: Physician. Contributions: Zād al-Musāfir Kitāb Ṭibb al-Mashāyikh[4] or Ṭibb al-Mashāyikh wa-ḥiifẓ ṣiḥḥatihim Kitāb al-Nisyān wa-Ṭuruq…
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…
A physician called Abdalmalik ben Abgar al-Kinānī from Kufa in Iraq is supposed to have worked at the medical school of Alexandria before he joined ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz’s court. ʿUmar transferred the medical school from Alexandria to Antioch.
Farisi was a pupil of the astronomer and mathematician Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, who in turn was a pupil of Nasir al-Din Tusi. Full Name: Kamal al-Din Hasan ibn Ali ibn Hasan al-Farisi . Arabic: كمال‌الدين فارسی Other Names: Abu Hasan Muhammad ibn Hasan. Born: 1267 AD. Died: 1319 AD. Origin: Persia. Famous for: Mathmetician, Physician.…
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]…
Najib ad-Din Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Umar Samarqandi was a 13th-century Persian physician from Samarqand. Full Name: Najīb al-Dīn Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn ‘Alī ibn ‘Umar al-Samarqandī. Arabic: نجيب الدين أبو حامد محمد بن علي بن عمر السمرقندي Born: Died: 1222AD. Origin: Samarqand, Persia. Famous for: Physician. Contributions: His most famous book was…
Zaynab al-Awadiyyah, sometimes spelled as al-Awadiyyah or al-Awdiyah) Also known as Zaynab of Banu Awd (Arabic: زينب طبيبة بني أود) was a 7th-century Arab physician and expert oculist. She was a member of the Arab tribe of Banu Awd. As a proficient medical practitioner, she was widely renowned among the Arabs due to her expertise…
