Muslim Scientists(Who says Islam and Muslims did not contribute to the civilization)

 

Assalaamu alaikum,

Who says Islam and Muslims did not contribute to the civilization!!

We just need to ask ourselves the following two questions however…

1)     What went wrong that stopped us from achieving the same success now?

2)     How can we achieve the same glory again? (the answer to the first question will give us 50% of the clues to this question.)

Read on…

A century-wise list of renowned Muslim scientists during Medieval Islamic Civilization. Latinized names, where applicable, are given in brackets. A very impressive and fascinating fact is that during the Islamic Golden era, a large number of Polymaths (a person whose expertise fills a significant number of subject areas) emerged. For example, Ibn Sina (latinized as Avicenna) made major contributions in medicine, Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology, physics, Philosophy, Theology, Engineering and Poetry!

According to the famous Historian of Science, George Sarton (regarded as 'Father of History of Science') in his well-recognized book the 'Introduction to the History of Science' he writes…:

"It will suffice here to evoke a few glorious names without contemporary equivalents in the West: Jabir ibn Haiyan, al-Kindi, al-Khwarizmi, al-Fargani, al-Razi, Thabit ibn Qurra, al-Battani, Hunain ibn Ishaq, al-Farabi, Ibrahim ibn Sinan, al-Masudi, al-Tabari, Abul Wafa, 'Ali ibn Abbas, Abul Qasim, Ibn al-Jazzar, al-Biruni, Ibn Sina, Ibn Yunus, al-Kashi, Ibn al-Haitham, 'Ali Ibn 'Isa al-Ghazali, al-zarqab, Omar Khayyam. A magnificent array of names which it would not be difficult to extend. If anyone tells you that the Middle Ages were scientifically sterile, just quote these men to him, all of whom flourished within a short period, 750 to 1100 A.D."

List of Muslim Scientists

7th century

Jabir Ibn Haiyan (Geber)

Ahmad Nahavandi

8th century

Al-Asmai

Al-Khwarizmi (Algorizm)

Amr ibn Bahr Al-Jahiz

Al Balkhi, Ja'Far Ibn Muhammas (Albumasar)

Al-Fazari,Ibrahim Ibn Habeeb

Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar

Ibrahim al-Fazari

Muhammad al-Fazari

Yaqūb ibn Tāriq

9th century

Ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi (Alkindus)

Thabit Ibn Qurrah (Thebit)

Abbas Ibn Firnas

Ali Ibn Rabban Al-Tabari

al-Hasan al-Hamdānī

Al-Battani (Albategnius)

Al -Farghani (Al-Fraganus)

Al-Razi (Rhazes)

Al-Farabi (Al-Pharabius)

Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu'di

Al-ʿAbbās ibn Saʿid al-Jawharī

Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk

Hunayn ibn Ishaq

Banū Mūsā Brothers:

 1. Ja'far Muhammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir

 2. Ahmad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir

 3. Al-Hasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir

Abū Ḥanīfa Dīnawarī

Al-Mahani

Ahmed ibn Yusuf al-misri

Al-Hashimi

Abu Kamil

Sinan ibn Tabit

Al-Nayrizi

Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi

Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi

Abu Sa'id al-Darir al-Jurjani(Gorgani)

Ibn al-Jazzar (Algizar)

Ibn Khordadbeh

Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi

Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad

Ibn al-Faqih

Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar

Qusta ibn Luqa

10th century

Al-Sufi (Azophi)

Al-Saghani

Abu Al-Qasim Al-Zahravi (Albucasis)

Abu Rayhan Biruni

Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin

Al-Uqlidisi

Al-Saghani

Abū Sahl al-Qūhī

Abu Nasr ibn `Iraq

Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi

Al-Karaji

Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī

Al-Karabisi

Al-Sijzi

Al-Jayyani

Abu Nasr Mansur

Abolfadl Harawi

Al-Muqaddasi

Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi(Haly Abbas)

Ibn Al-Haitham (Alhazen)

Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi

Ibrahim ibn Sinan

Ikhwan al-Safa'

Ibn Miskawayh

Al-Mawardi (Alboacen)

Abu Raihan Al-Biruni

Abul Hasan al-Tabari

Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

Ibn Sahl

Ibn Yunus

Kushyar ibn Labban

Labana of Cordoba

Najab ud-din Muhammad

11th century

Al-Zarqali (Arzachel)

Al-Mu'taman ibn Hud

Omar Al-Khayyam

Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi

Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Yahya (Ibn Bajjah)

Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar)

Ibn al-Zarqalluh

Ibn Jazla

Al-Idrisi (Dreses)

Alī ibn Aḥmad al-Nasawī

Ali ibn Ridwan Al-Misri

Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti

Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud

12th century

Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Yahya (Ibn Bajjah)

al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al

Al-Hassār

Al-Bitruji (Alpetragius)

Al-Khazini

al-Baghdadi

Anvari

Ibn Tufayl (Abdubacer)

Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

Ibn Jumay

Muhammad al-Idrisi

Ibn Al-Baitar

Ibn al-Yāsamīn

Ibn Bajjah(Avempace)

Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi (Alpetragius)

Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī

Jalal Al-Din Rumi

13th century

Al-Marrakushi

Al-Fida (Abdulfeda)

Ibn Al-Nafis Damishqui

Ibn Mun`im

Ibn Baso

Ibn al-Quff

Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī

Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi

Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi

Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī

Qotb al-Din Shirazi

14th century

Muhammad Ibn Abdullah (Ibn Battuta)

Abdur-Rahman Ibn Khaldun

Ibn al-Banna'

Ibn al-Shatir

Ibn Khatima

Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib

Kamal al-Din Al-Farisi

Mansur ibn Ilyas

Al-Khalili

Cheng Muhammad Zheng He

Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī

Ulugh Beg

15th century

Jamshīd al-Kāshī

Abū al-Hasan ibn Alī al-Qalasādī

Piri Reis

16th century

Taqi al-Din

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