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Al-Idrisi
Sciences & Discovery
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Al-Idrisi

الشريف الإدريسي
🇪🇸 spain
1100 – 1165 (65 years old)

North African Arab geographer, cartographer, and Egyptologist of noble Idrisi lineage who created the 'Tabula Rogeriana' in 1154 for King Roger II of Sicily, the most advanced world map and geographic encyclopedia of the medieval era.

Ceuta, Spain
Ibn Zuhr
Sciences & Discovery
16
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Ibn Zuhr

ابن زهر
🇲🇦 Morocco
c. 1094 – 1162 (68 years old)

Pioneering physician known to the Western world as Avenzoar, who served the Almohad dynasty in Marrakesh, introduced animal testing and human tracheotomy, and authored the foundational Kitab al-Taysir.

Marrakesh, Morocco
Omar Khayyam
Sciences & Discovery
34
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Omar Khayyam

عمر خیام نیشابوری
🇮🇷 Iran
18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131 (83 years old)

Persian polymath who geometrically solved cubic equations using intersecting conics, designed the ultra-precise Jalali solar calendar, and penned the world-famous Rubaiyat.

Nishapur (Razavi Khorasan), Iran
Su Song
Sciences & Discovery
34
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Su Song

蘇頌
🇨🇳 China
1020 CE – 1101 CE (81 years old)

Song Dynasty Prime Minister and engineer who designed the 40-foot water-driven astronomical clock tower of Kaifeng, featuring the world's earliest mechanical escapement and endless power-transmitting chain drive.

Xiamen (Fujian), China
Ali ibn Ridwan
Sciences & Discovery
29
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Ali ibn Ridwan

علي بن رضوان
🇪🇬 Egypt
0988 – 1061 (73 years old)

Self-taught Egyptian polymath and Chief Royal Physician of the Fatimid Caliphate, renowned for his detailed astronomical recording of the supernova SN 1006 and his commentary on Galen.

Cairo, Egypt
Ibn al-Haytham
Sciences & Discovery
14
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Ibn al-Haytham

ابن الهيثم
🇮🇶 Iraq
c. 965 CE – 1040 CE (75 years old)

Pioneering polymath revered as the 'father of modern optics' and architect of the modern scientific method, who composed his revolutionary Book of Optics near Al-Azhar in Fatimid Cairo.

Cairo, Egypt
Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)
Sciences & Discovery
32
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Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)

أبو القاسم خلف بن عباس الزهراوي
🇪🇸 Spain
936 CE – 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
30
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Ibn Yunus

ابن يونس المصري
🇪🇬 Egypt
c. 950 CE – 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
38
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Ibn al-Jazzar

أبو جعفر أحمد بن إبراهيم بن أبي خالد الجزار
🇹🇳 Tunisia
0898 – 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
39
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Al-Battani (Albatenius)

أبو عبد الله محمد بن جابر البتاني
🇹🇷 Turkey
c. 858 CE – 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 (Şanlıurfa), Turkey
Ishaq ibn Imran
Sciences & Discovery
17
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Ishaq ibn Imran

إسحاق بن عمران
🇮🇶 Iraq
c. 850 – 907 (~57 years old)

Pioneering 9th-century Baghdad-trained physician in Kairouan who authored the world's first clinical psychiatric treatise on depression, Maqala fi al-Malikhuliya (Treatise on Melancholy).

Kairouan, Tunisia
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