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Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)
Sciences & Discovery
7
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 920

Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)

ุฃุจูˆ ุงู„ู‚ุงุณู… ุฎู„ู ุจู† ุนุจุงุณ ุงู„ุฒู‡ุฑุงูˆูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
936 CE โ€“ 1013 CE (77 years old)

'Father of Operative Surgery' of Islamic Spain whose 30-volume Al-Tasrif introduced over 200 surgical instruments, catgut internal sutures, and shaped surgery across Europe for 500 years.

Cordoba (Andalusia), Spain
Ibn Yunus
Sciences & Discovery
5
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ibn Yunus

ุงุจู† ูŠูˆู†ุณ ุงู„ู…ุตุฑูŠ
๐ŸŒ Ikhshidid / Fatimid Egypt
c. 950 CE โ€“ 1009 (59 years old)

Fatimid Egyptian astronomer and mathematician who compiled the legendary 'Zij al-Kabir al-Hakimi' (The Hakemite Tables), formulated early prosthaphaeresis trigonometric identities, and observed eclipses with unprecedented accuracy.

Cairo, Egypt
Ibn al-Jazzar
Sciences & Discovery
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Ibn al-Jazzar

ุฃุจูˆ ุฌุนูุฑ ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุฅุจุฑุงู‡ูŠู… ุจู† ุฃุจูŠ ุฎุงู„ุฏ ุงู„ุฌุฒุงุฑ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
0898 โ€“ 0980 (82 years old)

Pioneering 10th-century North African physician from Kairouan who authored 'Zad al-Musafir' (The Traveler's Provision), which became the premier medical handbook of medieval Europe under the title 'Viaticum Peregrinantis'.

Kairouan, Tunisia
Al-Battani (Albatenius)
Sciences & Discovery
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 740

Al-Battani (Albatenius)

ุฃุจูˆ ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู„ู‡ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุฌุงุจุฑ ุงู„ุจุชุงู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey
c. 858 CE โ€“ 929 CE (~71 years old)

Great astronomer and mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age whose Kitab al-Zij corrected Ptolemy's calculations, measured the solar year to within 2 minutes, and replaced chords with trigonometric sines.

Harran (ลžanlฤฑurfa), Turkey
Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)
Sciences & Discovery
11
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 910

Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)

ุฃุจูˆ ุจูƒุฑ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ูŠุญูŠู‰ ุงู„ุฑุงุฒูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iran
865 CE โ€“ 27 October 925 (60 years old)

Chief physician of Baghdad Hospital who first clinically distinguished smallpox from measles, pioneered pediatric medicine, discovered ethanol distillation, and authored Kitab al-Hawi.

Rayy (Tehran), Iran
Varahamihira
Sciences & Discovery
8
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 650

Varahamihira

เคตเคฐเคพเคนเคฎเคฟเคนเคฟเคฐ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
505 CE โ€“ 587 CE (82 years old)

One of the 'Nine Jewels' (Navaratnas) of King Yashodharman's court, who compiled the Panchasiddhantika and Brihat Samhita, pioneering trigonometry, hydrology, and optics.

Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh), India
Banu Musa Brothers
Sciences & Discovery
2
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Banu Musa Brothers

ุจู†ูˆ ู…ูˆุณู‰ (ุฃุญู…ุฏ ูˆู…ุญู…ุฏ ูˆุงู„ุญุณู†)
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ Irak
803-01-01 โ€“ 873-01-01 (~70 years old)

Three brilliant Persian brothers (Jafar Muhammad, Ahmad, and Al-Hasan) of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad who authored the 850 CE 'Book of Ingenious Devices', inventing over one hundred automated hydraulic machines, feedback valves, and programmable instruments.

Baghdad, Iraq
Al-Farghani
Sciences & Discovery
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Al-Farghani

ุฃุจูˆ ุงู„ุนุจุงุณ ุฃุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ูƒุซูŠุฑ ุงู„ูุฑุบุงู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Irak
800-01-01 โ€“ 861-01-01 (~61 years old)

Abbasid astronomer known as Alfraganus, author of 'Elements of Astronomy', whose measurements of the Earth's circumference influenced Christopher Columbus, and who engineered the iconic Nilometer on Roda Island in Cairo.

Cairo, Egypt
Al-Battani
Sciences & Discovery
3
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Al-Battani

ุฃุจูˆ ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู„ู‡ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุจู† ุฌุงุจุฑ ุงู„ุจุชุงู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ Irak
858-01-01 โ€“ 929-01-01 (~71 years old)

Astronomer and mathematician known in the West as Albatenius, whose astronomical tables 'Kitab al-Zij' accurately calculated the solar year to 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes, and 24 seconds, and introduced fundamental trigonometric functions.

Raqqa, Syria
Leo Africanus
Sciences & Discovery
2
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Leo Africanus

ุงู„ุญุณู† ุจู† ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ูˆุฒุงู† ุงู„ุฒูŠุงุชูŠ
๐ŸŒ Kingdom of Granada
c. 1494 โ€“ c. 1554 (~60 years old)

North African diplomat, traveler, and geographer born in Granada and raised in Fez, whose masterwork 'Descrittione dell'Africa' (1526) served as Europe's primary geographical authority on the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa for centuries.

Tunis, Tunisia
Fatima al-Fihriya
Sciences & Discovery
4
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 0

Fatima al-Fihriya

ูุงุทู…ุฉ ุงู„ูู‡ุฑูŠุฉ (ุฃู… ุงู„ุจู†ูŠู†)
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
c. 800 โ€“ c. 880 (~80 years old)

Visionary Arab Muslim woman known as 'Umm al-Banin' who migrated from Kairouan to Fez and used her entire inherited fortune to found the University of al-Qarawiyyin in 859 CE, recognized by UNESCO as the oldest continuously operating university in the world.

Fez, Morocco
Brahmagupta
Sciences & Discovery
9
๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ 890

Brahmagupta

เคฌเฅเคฐเคนเฅเคฎเค—เฅเคชเฅเคค
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
598 CE โ€“ c. 668 CE (~70 years old)

Genius astronomer and mathematician who formulated the mathematical rules of zero (shunya) as a number, operations with negative numbers, and the Brahmagupta formula for cyclic quadrilaterals.

Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh), India
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