List of scientists in medieval Islamic world
This is a list of Muslim scientists who have contributed significantly to science and civilization in the Islamic Golden Age (i.e. from the 8th century to the 14th century).
Astronomers and astrologers
- sanad ibn Ali (-864)
- Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar (d. 747/1346-1347)
- Ali Qushji (1403-1474)
- Ahmad Khani (1650-1707)
- Ibrahim al-Fazari (-777)
- Muhammad al-Fazari (-796 or 806)
- Al-Khwarizmi, Mathematician (780-850 CE)
- Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar) (787-886 CE)
- Al-Farghani (800/805-870)
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa) (9th century)
- Dīnawarī (815-896)
- Al-Majriti (d. 1008 or 1007 CE)
- Al-Battani (858-929 CE) (Albatenius)
- Al-Farabi (872-950 CE) (Abunaser)
- Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi (903-986)
- Abu Sa'id Gorgani (9th century)
- Kushyar ibn Labban (971-1029)
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin (900-971)
- Al-Mahani (8th century)
- Al-Marwazi (9th century)
- Al-Nayrizi (865-922)
- Al-Saghani (-990)
- Al-Farghani (9th century)
- Abu Nasr Mansur (970-1036)
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (10th century) (Kuhi)
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi (940-1000)
- Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī (940-998)
- Ibn Yunus (950-1009)
- Ibn al-Haytham (965-1040) (Alhacen)
- Bīrūnī (973-1048)
- Avicenna (980-1037) (Ibn Sīnā)
- Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (1029-1087) (Arzachel)
- Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
- Al-Khazini (fl. 1115-1130)
- Ibn Bajjah (1095-1138) (Avempace)
- Ibn Tufail (1105-1185) (Abubacer)
- Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi (-1204) (Alpetragius)
- Averroes (1126-1198)
- Al-Jazari (1136-1206)
- Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī (1135-1213)
- Anvari (1126-1189)
- Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi (-1266)
- Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-1274)
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236-1311)
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī (1250-1310)
- Ibn al-Shatir (1304-1375)
- Shams al-Dīn Abū Abd Allāh al-Khalīlī (1320-1380)
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī (1380-1429)
- Ulugh Beg (1394-1449)
- Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (1526-1585)
- Ahmad Nahavandi (8th and 9th centuries)
- Haly Abenragel (10th and 11th century)
- Abolfadl Harawi (10th century)
- Mu'ayyad al-Din al-'Urdi (1200-1266)
Biologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists
- Ibn Sirin (654-728), author of work on dreams and dream interpretation[1]
- Al-Kindi (801-873) (Alkindus), pioneer of psychotherapy and music therapy[2]
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (9th century), pioneer of psychiatry, clinical psychiatry and clinical psychology[3]
- Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi (850-934), pioneer of mental health, [4] medical psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive therapy, psychophysiology and psychosomatic medicine[5]
- Al-Farabi (872-950) (Alpharabius), pioneer of social psychology and consciousness studies[6]
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936-1013) (Abulcasis), pioneer of neurosurgery[7]
- Ibn al-Haytham (965-1040) (Alhazen), founder of experimental psychology, psychophysics, phenomenology and visual perception[8]
- Al-Biruni (973-1050), pioneer of reaction time[9]
- Avicenna (980-1037) (Ibn Sīnā), pioneer of neuropsychiatry,[10] thought experiment, self-awareness and self-consciousness[11]
- Ibn Zuhr (1094-1162) (Avenzoar), pioneer of neurology and neuropharmacology[7]
- Averroes, pioneer of Parkinson's disease[7]
- Ibn Tufail (1126-1198), pioneer of tabula rasa and nature versus nurture[12]
Chemists and alchemists
- Khalid ibn Yazid (-704) (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq (702-765)
- Jābir ibn Hayyān (721-815) (Geber), father of chemistry[13][14][15]
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (810-887) (Armen Firman)
- Al-Kindi (801-873) (Alkindus)
- Al-Majriti (fl. 1007-1008)
- Ibn Miskawayh (932-1030)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973-1048)
- Avicenna (980-1037)
- Al-Khazini (fl. 1115-1130)
- Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-1274)
- Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)
- Al-Khwārizmī (780-850), algebra, mathematics
Economists and social scientists
- Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man (699-767), Islamic jurisprudence scholar
- Abu Yusuf (731-798), Islamic jurisprudence scholar
- Al-Saghani (-990), one of the earliest historians of science[16]
- Shams al-Mo'ali Abol-hasan Ghaboos ibn Wushmgir (Qabus) (d. 1012), economist
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973-1048), considered the "first anthropologist"[17] and father of Indology[18]
- Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) (980-1037), economist
- Ibn Miskawayh (1030-), economist
- Al-Ghazali (Algazel) (1058-1111), economist
- Al-Mawardi (1075-1158), economist
- Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (Tusi) (1201-1274), economist
- Ibn al-Nafis (1213-1288), sociologist
- Ibn Taymiyyah (1263-1328), economist
- Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), forerunner of social sciences[19] such as demography,[20] cultural history,[21] historiography,[22] philosophy of history,[23] sociology[20][23] and economics[24][25]
- Al-Maqrizi (1364-1442), economist
Geographers and earth scientists
- Al-Masudi, the "Herodotus of the Arabs", and pioneer of historical geography[26]
- Al-Kindi, pioneer of environmental science[27]
- al-Hamdani
- Ibn Al-Jazzar
- Al-Tamimi
- Al-Masihi
- Ali ibn Ridwan
- Muhammad al-Idrisi, also a cartographer
- Ahmad ibn Fadlan
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, father of geodesy,[17][20] considered the first geologist and "first anthropologist"[17]
- Avicenna
- Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
- Averroes
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Ibn Jubayr
- Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Khaldun
- Piri Reis
- Evliya Çelebi
Mathematicians
- Further information: Islamic mathematics: Biographies
- Ali Qushji
- Al-Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Matar
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (Algorismi), father of algebra[28] and algorithms[29]
- 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk
- Abū al-Hasan ibn Alī al-Qalasādī (1412-1482), pioneer of symbolic algebra[30]
- Abū Kāmil Shujā ibn Aslam
- Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus)
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa)
- Ja'far Muhammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir
- Al-Hasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir
- Al-Mahani
- Ahmed ibn Yusuf
- Al-Majriti
- Al-Battani (Albatenius)
- Al-Farabi (Abunaser)
- Al-Nayrizi
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin
- Brethren of Purity
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
- Al-Saghani
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi
- Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī
- Ibn Sahl
- Al-Sijzi
- Ibn Yunus
- Abu Nasr Mansur
- Kushyar ibn Labban
- Al-Karaji
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen/Alhazen)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi
- Al-Nasawi
- Al-Jayyani
- Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel)
- Al-Mu'taman ibn Hud
- Omar Khayyám
- Al-Khazini
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Al-Ghazali (Algazel)
- Al-Marrakushi
- Al-Samawal
- Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
- Ibn Seena (Avicenna)
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq
- Ibn al-Banna'
- Ibn al-Shatir
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar)
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
- Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī
- Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi
- Muhammad Baqir Yazdi
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, 13th century Persian mathematician and philosopher
- Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī
- Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī
- Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf
- Ulugh Beg
- Al-Samawal al-Maghribi (1130-1180)
Philosophers
For a detailed list of Muslim philosophers, refer to the [[List of Muslim philosophers], this list only includes philosophers who were active in the medieval Islamic world.
Physicists and engineers
- Mimar Sinan (1489-1588), also known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ
- Jafar al-Sadiq, 8th century
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa), 9th century
- Ja'far Muhammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir
- Ahmad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir
- Al-Hasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman), 9th century
- Al-Saghani (d. 990)
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (Kuhi), 10th century
- Ibn Sahl, 10th century
- Ibn Yunus, 10th century
- Al-Karaji, 10th century
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), 11th century Iraqi scientist, father of optics,[31] and experimental physics,[32] considered the "first scientist"[33]
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, 11th century, pioneer of experimental mechanics[34]
- Ibn Sīnā/Seena (Avicenna), 11th century
- Al-Khazini, 12th century
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), 12th century
- Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Nathanel), 12th century
- Ibn Rushd (Averroes), 12th century Andalusian mathematician, philosopher and medical expert
- Al-Jazari, 13th century civil engineer,
- Nasir al-Din Tusi, 13th century
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, 13th century
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, 13th century
- Ibn al-Shatir, 14th century
Notes
- Haque 2004, p. 375.
- Saoud 2004.
- Haque 2004, p. 361.
- Deuraseh & Abu Talib 2005.
- Haque 2004, p. 362.
- Haque 2004, p. 363.
- Martin-Araguz et al. 2002.
- Khaleefa 1999.
- Iqbal 1934.
- Safavi-Abbasi, Brasiliense & Workman 2007.
- Nasr & Leaman 1996.
- Russell 1994.
- Warren 2005.
- Zahoor 1997.
- Vallely 2006.
- Rosenthal 1950, p. 559.
- Ahmed 1984.
- Khan 2000.
- Ahmed 2002.
- Mowlana 2001.
- Abdalla 2007.
- Ahmed 1999.
- Akhtar 1997.
- Oweiss 1988.
- Boulakia 1971.
- "Mas'udi, al-". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Gari 2002.
- Gandz 1936.
- Nanisetti 2006.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Abu'l Hasan ibn Ali al Qalasadi", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Al Deek 2004.
- Thiele 2005.
- Al-Khalili 2009.
- Rozhanskaya & Levinova 1996.
Ibrar Hasham of Mardan
See also
- List of Arab scientists and scholars
- List of Iranian scientists and scholars
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