NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of Muslim scientists

Islamic science has been an important part of the history of science and the present day. This is an incomplete list of notable Muslim scientists. This is a subarticle to Islamic studies and science. ... Science is a body of empirical and theoretical knowledge, produced by a global community of researchers, making use of specific techniques for the observation and explanation of real phenomena, this techne summed up under the banner of scientific method. ...

Astronomy

Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Maruf al-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي السعدي) (c. ... Soviet postage stamp commemorating the 1200th anniversary of Muhammad al‑Khwarizmi in 1983. ... Ulugh Beg, here depicted on a Soviet stamp, was one of Islams greatest astronomers during the Middle Ages. ... Ghiyath al-Din Abul-Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Nisaburi KhayyÃ¡mi, (Persian: ØºÛŒØ§Ø« Ø§Ù„Ø¯ÛŒÙ† Ø§Ø¨Ùˆ Ø§Ù„ÙØªØ Ø¹Ù…Ø± Ø¨Ù† Ø§Ø¨Ø±Ø§Ù‡ÛŒÙ… Ø®ÛŒØ§Ù… Ù†ÛŒØ´Ø§Ø¨ÙˆØ±ÛŒ, born: May 31, 1048 in Nishapur, Iran (Persia) â€“ died: December 4, 1131), was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer. ... Abul-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani known as Alfraganus in the West, was a Persian astronomer and one of the famous astronomers in ninth century. ... Abu Ishaq Ibrahlm ibn Habib ibn Sulaiman ibn Samura ibn Jundab al-Fazari was an 8th century Persian mathematician and astronomer at the Abbasid court of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid. ... Abu abdallah Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari was a Persian philosopher and mathematician. ...

Chemistry

Ahmed Zewail Ahmed Hassan Zewail (Arabic: Ø£ØÙ…Ø¯ Ø²ÙˆÙŠÙ„) (born February 26, 1946) is an Egyptian American chemist, and the winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. ... This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to 2006. ... 15th century European portrait of Geber, Codici Ashburnhamiani 1166, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence Jabir Ibn Hayyan , full name Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan Al-Azdi (أبو موسى جابر بن حيان الأزدي), born c. ...

Geography

Mathematicians

Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Ibn Yahya al-Maghribi Al-Samawal was a Moroccan born muslim mathematician and astronomer of the 12th century. ... Abul Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi was an Arab mathematician, possibly from Damascus He wrote the earliest surviving book on the Hindu place-value system, known in the west as Arabic numerals, around 952. ... Kashani, dubbed, the Second Ptolemy, was an outstanding Persian mathematician of the middle ages. ... Abu Kamil Shuja ibn Aslam ibn Muhammad ibn Shuja (c. ... Abu Sahl Wijan (or Waijan) ibn Rustam al-Kuhi (also al-Quhi), was a Persian mathematician and astronomer. ... Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Al-Karaji (953 - 1029), also known as Al-karkhi was a Persian mathematician and engineer. ... Soviet postage stamp commemorating the 1200th anniversary of Muhammad al‑Khwarizmi in 1983. ... Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraq (c. ... Ahmad ibn Yusuf (8XX - 913?) was an Arab mathematician. ... Al-Jawhari (ca. ... Abū-Yūsuf Ya’qūb ibn Ishāq al-Kindī (c. ... Alhazen Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haitham (also: Ibn al Haitham) (965-1040) (Arabic: Ø£Ø¨Ùˆ Ø¹Ù„ÙŠ Ø§Ù„ØØ³Ù† Ø¨Ù† Ø§Ù„Ù‡ÙŠØ«Ù…) was an Arab Muslim mathematician; he is sometimes called al-Basri (Arabic: Ø§Ù„Ø¨ØµØ±ÙŠ), after his birthplace Basra, Arab Islamic Caliphate (now Iraq). ... Biruni commemorated on a Soviet stamp for his millennial anniversary. ... Ghiyath al-Din Abul-Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Nisaburi KhayyÃ¡mi, (Persian: ØºÛŒØ§Ø« Ø§Ù„Ø¯ÛŒÙ† Ø§Ø¨Ùˆ Ø§Ù„ÙØªØ Ø¹Ù…Ø± Ø¨Ù† Ø§Ø¨Ø±Ø§Ù‡ÛŒÙ… Ø®ÛŒØ§Ù… Ù†ÛŒØ´Ø§Ø¨ÙˆØ±ÛŒ, born: May 31, 1048 in Nishapur, Iran (Persia) â€“ died: December 4, 1131), was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer. ... For information about all peoples of Iran, see Demographics of Iran; for Central Asian Persians, see Tajiks. ... Tusi couple from Vat. ... For information about all peoples of Iran, see Demographics of Iran; for Central Asian Persians, see Tajiks. ... Kamal al-Din Abul Hasan Muhammad Al-Farisi (in Persian: ÙƒÙ…Ø§Ù„ Ø§Ù„Ø¯ÙŠÙ† Ø§Ø¨ÙˆØ§Ù„ØØ³Ù† Ù…ØÙ…Ø¯ Ø§Ù„ÙØ§Ø±Ø³ÙŠ) (1260 - 1320) was a prominent Persian mathematician and physicist. ... Sibt al-Mardini, Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ghazal (1423-1506 A.D.). He was born in Egypt. ...

Medicine

Abu-l-Hasan Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Tabari, was a 10th century Persian physician from Tabaristan. ... Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (ca 838 - ca 870) was a scholar physician in who produced the first encyclopedia of medicine. ... Abu al-Qasim (936 - 1013), (Arabic: Ø£Ø¨Ùˆ Ø§Ù„Ù‚Ø§Ø³Ù…) also known as Abul Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas al-Zahrawi known in the West as Abulcasis, is medieval Islams most prominent scholar of medicine. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Professor Saghir Akhtar BSc (Pharmacy) PhD MRPharmS is Chair of drug delivery at the Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff. ... Rhazes-Treating a Patient (artist unknown) Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (born in Rayy, Iran, 864; died in Baghdad, Iraq, 930 AD) was a versatile Persian philosopher (hakim), who made fundamental and lasting contributions to the fields of medicine, chemistry (alchemy) and philosophy. ... Ala-al-din abu Al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi (Arabic: Ø¹Ù„Ø§Ø¡ Ø§Ù„Ø¯ÙŠÙ† Ø£Ø¨Ùˆ Ø§Ù„ØØ³Ù† Ø¹Ù„ÙŠÙ‘ Ø¨Ù† Ø£Ø¨ÙŠ ØØ²Ù… Ø§Ù„Ù‚Ø±Ø´ÙŠ Ø§Ù„Ø¯Ù…Ø´Ù‚ÙŠ ) known as ibn Al-Nafis (Arabic: Ø§Ø¨Ù† Ø§Ù„Ù†ÙÙŠØ³ ), was an Arab physician who is mostly famous for being the first to describe the pulmonary circulation of the blood. ... Kamal al-Din Abul Hasan Muhammad Al-Farisi (in Persian: ÙƒÙ…Ø§Ù„ Ø§Ù„Ø¯ÙŠÙ† Ø§Ø¨ÙˆØ§Ù„ØØ³Ù† Ù…ØÙ…Ø¯ Ø§Ù„ÙØ§Ø±Ø³ÙŠ) (1260 - 1320) was a prominent Persian mathematician and physicist. ...

Physics

Category: Islam and science Ibn Rushd, known as Averroes (1126 â€“ December 10, 1198), was an Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics, and medicine. ... Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors; it refers to both the Caliphate proper and the general period of Muslim rule (711–1492). ... Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari (1206 AD) wrote notable books about engineering that are consulted in the history of engineering even today. ... Mahmoud Hessaby (in Persian Ù…ØÙ…ÙˆØ¯ ØØ³Ø§Ø¨ÛŒ - other spellings: Mahmood Hesabi) (1903 -- September 3, 1992) was a prominent Persian scientist, researcher and professor of the University of Tehran. ... Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (born June 25, 1936), more commonly known simply as Rudy Habibie or B J Habibie, was the third President of Indonesia, holding office from 1998 to 1999. ... Abdus Salam at Nobel Prize ceremony with the King of Sweden Dr. Abdus Salam (Urdu: Ø¹Ø¨Ø¯ Ø§Ù„Ø³Ù„Ø§Ù…) (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab â€“ 21 November 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in electroweak theory which... Hannes AlfvÃ©n (1908â€“1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... For the song by the Smashing Pumpkins, see 1979 (song). ... Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Nishan-e-Imtiaz (twice) (Urdu: Ø¹Ø¨Ø¯Ø§Ù„Ù‚Ø¯ÛŒØ± Ø®Ø§Ù† )(b. ... The word nuclear means of or belonging to the nucleus of something. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Alhazen Abu Ali al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haitham, (965-1040) was a Arab Muslim mathematician; he is sometimes called al-Basri, after his birthplace. ...

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