Fida, Isma'il Ibn Kathir ‘Imad Al-Din
A SYRIAN historian and scholar (1273-1331), he was born in Basra. The most famous of his works is the Tafsir (explanation) of the Qur'an, known as Tafsir Ibn Kathir. Among his other great works are: Al-Bidaya (...)
Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad.
AN Andalusian physician, polymath, a master of Islamic law, astronomy, medicine, physics, and science, Averroes was born in Cordoba, and died in Marrakech (1126-1198 CE).
Famous by his work in medicine – a medical (...)
Farghani, Abul-'Abbas Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Kathir
One of the famous astronomers in the 9th century. Born in 805 at Ferghana (present Uzbekistan), he worked in Baghdad, where he was connected to the group of scholars led by the brothers Banu Musa. (...)
Majusi
A FAMOUS Persian physician. Born in Ahwaz, he flourished under the Buwayhid Sultan Adhud Al-Dawla. He died in 994. He is considered one of the three greatest physicians of the Eastern Caliphate of his time. Among his important books is a (...)
Idrissi, Abu Abdullah Muhammad Al-Charif Al-Idrissi
HE was a Moroccan cartographer, geographer and traveller (1100-1165) born in Sebta, Northern Morocco under the Almoravids.
He died in his city after a long stay in Andalus and Sicily, where he (...)
Baghdadi
HE was an Arab mathematician (980–1037 CE) from Baghdad who is best known for his treatise Al-Takmila Fi'l-Hisab. It contains results in number theory, and comments on works by Al-Khwarizmi which are now lost.
Influence of some of his (...)
Jazzar, Abu Ja'far Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Abi Khalid Al-Qayrawani
Tunisian physician, born around 878CE in Kairouan, where he died in 980CE. Ibn al-Jazzar hailed from a family of physicians. He studied with the famous Jewish philosopher and (...)
Qasim Khalaf Ibn al-‘Abbas Al-Zahrawi
AN Andalusian physician and surgeon (936 - 1013). He is considered as the father of modern surgery, and as Islam's greatest surgeon, whose comprehensive medical texts, combining Islamic medicine and ancient (...)