Aisha bint al-Jayyar al-Sabtiyyah عائشة بنت الجيار السبتية
Aisha Bint al-Jayyar is described as a brilliant female physician. She was the daughter of the sheikh and author Abi Abd Allah Ben al-Jayyar of Ceuta – the fact that…
Ibn Zuhr ابن زهر
Ibn Zuhr is known as the pioneer of neurology and neuropharmacology. He performed the first experimental tracheotomy on a goat. He is thought to have made the earliest description of…
al-Zahrawi الزهراوي
Al-Zahrawi is considered as one of the greatest surgeons of the Middle Ages. Full Name: Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari . Arabic: أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي…
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…
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…
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…
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
A number of books are attributed to Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi written about astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory, philosophy and Sufism. Full Name: Qotb al-Din Mahmoud b. Zia al-Din Mas'ud…
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi نصیر الدین الطوسی
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi is often considered the creator of trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right.. Full Name: Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi. Other Names: Nasir al-Din…
Al-Bitruji البطروجي
The first astronomer to present the concentric spheres model as an alternative to the Ptolemaic system. Full Name: Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji. Other Names: Alpetragius Arabic: نور الدين ابن إسحاق البطروجي…
Ibn Rushd ابن رشد
Ibn Rushd is known as the pioneer of diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's disease.wrote many books on philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, Islamic jurisprudence and law. Full Name:…