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List of Arab scientists and scholars

This is a list of scientists and scholars from the Muslim World and Spain (Al-Andalus) who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age, consisting primarily of scholars during the Middle Ages. In some cases, their exact ancestry is unclear.

Al - the

ibn, bin, banu - son of

abu - father of, the one with

To maintain consistency and keep the list easy to navigate,

Ahmad al-Qalqashandi (1355 or 1356, Nile Delta, Egypt – 1418)

Abd el-Latif el-Baghdadi (1162, Baghdad, Iraq – 1231) physician, historian and Egyptologist

Ahmad Bilal Yousaf (April 18, 1721 – January 21, 1782)

Alsayed Ali Ahmad Alshaykh (1759, Alexandria, Egypt – 1848)

Averroes - See Ibn Rushd

Avempace - See Ibn Bajjah

Abulcasis - See Al-Zahrawi

Ahmad ibn Fadlan (10th century, Baghdad,Iraq) writer and traveler; member of an embassy of the Caliph of Baghdad to the Volga Bulgars

Ahmad ibn Majid (1432, Ras al-Khaimah, UAE - 1500,?) navigator and poet

Ahmed ibn Yusuf (835, Baghdad - 912, Egypt) - mathematician

Ali Ben Isa (9th century)

Ali ibn Ridwan (c. 988, Giza, Egypt - 1061) astronomer and geometer with Khalid Ben Abdulmelik

Al-Asma'i (739, Basra, Iraq - 831, Basra, Iraq) pioneer of zoology, botany and animal husbandry

Abubacer - See Ibn Tufail

Ahmed Zewail - See Ahmed Zewail

Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi (980, Baghdad, Iraq - 1037, ?) arithmetic

Al-Baqillani (?, Basra, Iraq - 1013, Basra, Iraq) theologian, scholar, and Maliki lawyer

Al-Battani (850, Harran, Turkey - 929, Qasr al-Jiss, Iraq) astronomer and mathematician

Ibn Duraid (837, Basra, Iraq - 934, Baghdad, Iraq) geographer, genealogist, poet, and philologist

Gamal Hemdan (February 2, 1928 - April 17, 1993) geographer

Haly Abenragel (Abû l-Hasan 'Alî ibn Abî l-Rijâl) (? - 1037, Kairouan, Tunisia) astrologer, best known for his Kitāb al-bāri' fi akhām an-nujūm

Ibn Hawqal (943, Baghdad,Iraq - 969,? ) writer, geographer, and chronicler

Hassan Hanafi (born 1935 in Cairo, Egypt) professor and chair of philosophy at Cairo University

Al-Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Matar (786 – 833) mathematician

Jabir ibn Hayyan 722 - 804 chemist

Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī (893, Yemen - 945, Sanaa, Yemen) geographer, historian and astronomer

Ibn Hubal (1122, Baghdad, Iraq - 1213) physician, scientist and author of a medical compendium

Ikhwan al-Safa اخوان الصفا وخلان الوفا (The Brethren of Purity) (Basra, Iraq), a group of neo-Platonic Arabic philosophers of the 10th century

Al-Idrisi (1099, Ceuta, Maghreb - 1166 CE, Sicily) geographer and cartographer

Ibn Abi Ishaq (died AD 735) the earliest known grammarian of the Arabic language

Jabir ibn Aflah (1100, Seville, Spain - 1160, ? ) influential astronomer and mathematician

Al-Jayyani (989, Cordoba, Spain - 1079, Jaen, Spain) mathematician and author

Ibn Al-Jazzar (10th century, Qairwan, Tunis) influential 10th century physician and author

Al-Jahiz (776, Basra, Iraq - 869, Basra, Iraq) historian, biologist and author

Al-Jawhari, Abu Alabbas (ca. 800-860) mathematician

Ibn Jubayr (1145, Valencia, Spain - 1217, Egypt) geographer, traveller and poet, known for his detailed travel journals

Al-Khalili (1320, Damascus, Syria - 1380, Damascus, Syria) an astronomer who compiled extensive tables for astronomical use

Khalil ibn Ahmad (c. 718, Oman – c. 791) writer and philologist, compiled the first dictionary of the Arabic language, the Kitab al-Ayn

Al-Kindi (c. 801, Kufa, Iraq – 873, Bahgdad, Iraq) Arab philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, physician and geographer

Ibn Khaldun (May 27, 1332, Tunis - March 19, 1406, Cairo, Egypt)

Labīd ibn rabi'a (c. 560 – c. 661) Arabian poet.

Ibn al-Nafis (1213, Damascus, Syria - 1288, Cairo, Egypt) physician and author, the first to describe pulmonary circulation, compiled a medical encyclopedia and wrote numerous works on

Nur ad-Din al-Betrugi (Alpetragius)[1](?, Morocco - 1204, Seville, Spain) astronomer and philosopher

Omar M. Yaghi (1965, Amman, Jordan - Present) Chemist Professor at the University of California, Berkeley

Sameera Moussa March 3, 1917 - August 5, 1952

Ibn al-Shatir (1304,Damascus - 1375, Syria, Damascus) astronomer, mathematician, engineer and inventor, worked at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, developed an original astronomical model

Ibn Al-Thahabi (?, Suhar, Oman - 1033 CE, Valencia, Spain) physician and author of an encyclopedia of medicine

Al-Uqlidisi (920, Damascus, Syria - 980, Damascus, Syria) wrote two works on arithmetic, may have anticipated the invention of decimals

Usamah ibn Munqidh (1095–1188, Damascus, Syria), Arab historian, politician, and diplomat

Ibn Abi Usaibia (1203–1270, Damascus, Syria) physician and historian, wrote Uyun al-Anba fi Tabaqat al-Atibba (Lives of the Physicians)

Al-Umawi (1400, Spain - 1489, Damascus, Syria) mathematician, wrote works on mensuration and arithmetic

Waddah al-Yaman (Yemen,? - Syria,Damscus,709) poet, famous for his erotic and romantic poems

Yusuf al-Mutamin mathematician, wrote Kitab al-Istikmal (Book of Perfection) in Mathematica

Al-Zahrawi (936, Cordoba, Spain - 1013, Cordoba, Spain) Islam's greatest medieval surgeon, wrote comprehensive medical texts combining Middle-Eastern, Indian and Greco-Roman classical teachings, shaped European surgical procedures until the Renaissance, considered the "father Of surgery", wrote Al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume collection of medical practice

Al-Zarqali (1028,Spain - 1087,? CE) mathematician, influential astronomer, and instrument maker, contributed to the famous Tables of Toledo

Ibn Zuhr (1091, Seville, Spain - 1161, Seville, Spain) prominent physician of the Medieval Islamic

All of these people are likely Muslims that created Knowledge today. When Muslims come Knowledge come to these people. Without Muslims the world is not knowledgeable place.

Mohammed AlSaidi