Al-Kindi

Al-Kindi

male, deceased (873)
musician, Astronomer, Peripatetic school, Sunni Muslim scholar of Islam, Islamic mathematics, abbasid…Islamicastronomy, Islamic music, Islamic medicine, Islamic Science, Islamic philosophy
"' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher,...
Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

male, deceased (1039)
finite speed, lenses, speed of light, electromagnetic, empiricism, electromagnetism…Islamic Science, Islamic medicine, Early Islamic philosophy, Islamic mathematics, Islamicastronomy
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
Ibn Al-Shatir

Ibn Al-Shatir

male, deceased (1375)
geocentric, Islamicastronomy, epicycles, eccentricity, Umayyad Mosque, planets…islamic
Ibn al-Shatir was an Arab Islamic astronomer. He worked as "muwaqqit" (موقت, religious timekeeper) in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and cons...
Ulugh Beg

Ulugh Beg

male, deceased (1449)
Turko-Persian Tradition, Islamic mathematics, Turco-Persian, Islamicastronomy, Timurid Empire, mirza
Ulugh Beg (c1393 or 1394 in Sultaniyeh (Persia) - October 27, 1449) was a Timurid ruler as well as an astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His...
Avicenna

Avicenna

male, deceased (1037)
physics, mathematics, Classical humanist, Islamic medicine, Soldier, Islamic Science…Islamicastronomy, Logic in Islamic philosophy, Early Islamic philosophy, Islamic poetry, Islamic mathematics
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, al...
Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

male, deceased (1543)
Catholic, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres, Muslim, Indian, Indian astronomy, Islamicastronomy
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the...
Taqi Al-Din

Taqi Al-Din

male, deceased (1585)
Al-Turuq al-samiyya fi al-alat al-ruhaniyya, Islamic astrology, Muslim inventions, Muslim scientist, inventor, Islamicastronomy…Islamic Science
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf al-Shami al-Asadi was a major Muslim scientist and inventor. He is the author of several texts on astronomy,...
Abū Rayhān Al-Bīrūnī

Abū Rayhān Al-Bīrūnī

male, deceased (1048)
Al-Biruni crater, universal genius, Islamic astrology, al-Biruni, Islamic mathematics, Alhacen…Islamicastronomy, Islamic philosophy
"'"' (September 15 973 in Kath, Khwarezm - December 13 1048 in Ghazni) was a Persian Muslim universal genius of the 11th Century, whose experiments...

Muhammad Ibn Mūsā Al-Khwārizmī

male, deceased (850)
Islamic astrology, Islamic mathematics, Islamicastronomy, decimal, uzbekistan, Geographer
"'"' was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and geographer. He was born around 780 in Khwārizm (now Khiva, Uzbekistan) and died a...
Abu Nasr Mansur

Abu Nasr Mansur

male, deceased (1036)
al-Biruni, Islamic mathematics, Islamicastronomy, Muslim mathematician, Ghazna, gilan
Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraq (c. 960 - 1036) was a Muslim mathematician. He is well known for discovering the sine law. Abu Nasr Mansur was...