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[[Islamic science|Science in the Islamic world]] has played an important role in the [[history of science]]. There have also been some notable Muslim scientists in the present day. The following is an '''incomplete list of notable Muslim scientists'''. |
[[Islamic science|Science in the Islamic world]] has played an important role in the [[history of science]]. There have also been some notable Muslim scientists in the present day. The following is an '''incomplete list of notable Muslim scientists'''. |
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== Astronomers and Astrophysicists== |
== Astronomers and Astrophysicists== |
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* [[Sake Dean Mahomet]] |
* [[Sake Dean Mahomet]] |
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* [[Salimuzzaman Siddiqui]] |
* [[Salimuzzaman Siddiqui]] |
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* [[Ahmed H. Zewail]], [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], 1999<ref>[http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates |
* [[Ahmed H. Zewail]], [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], 1999<ref>[http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates All Nobel Laureates in Chemistry], [[Nobel Prize]]</ref> |
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* [[Ali Eftekhari]] |
* [[Ali Eftekhari]] |
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{{see also|List of Muslim historians|Historiography of early Islam}} |
{{see also|List of Muslim historians|Historiography of early Islam}} |
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*[[Muhammad]] (570-632), |
*[[Muhammad]] (570-632), discussed [[corporate social responsibility]]<ref>Jawed A. Mohammed PhD and Alfred Oehlers (2007), [http://repositoryaut.lconz.ac.nz/theses/1324 Corporate social responsibility in Islam], School of Business, [[Auckland University of Technology]].</ref> |
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*[[Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man]] (699-767), [[economist]] |
*[[Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man]] (699-767), [[economist]] |
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*[[Abu Yusuf]] (731-798), economist |
*[[Abu Yusuf]] (731-798), economist |
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{{see|Muslim Agricultural Revolution}} |
{{see|Muslim Agricultural Revolution}} |
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* [[Muhammad]], |
* [[Muhammad]], discussed [[environmental philosophy]]<ref>S. Nomanul Haq, "Islam", in Dale Jamieson (2001), ''A Companion to Environmental Philosophy'', pp. 111-129 [119-129], [[Blackwell Publishing]], ISBN 140510659X.</ref> |
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* [[Al-Masudi]], the "Herodotus of the Arabs", and pioneer of [[historical geography]]<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9051339 Mas'udi, al-." ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', 2006.</ref> |
* [[Al-Masudi]], the "Herodotus of the Arabs", and pioneer of [[historical geography]]<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9051339 Mas'udi, al-." ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', 2006.</ref> |
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* [[Al-Kindi]], pioneer of [[environmental science]]<ref>L. Gari (2002), "Arabic Treatises on Environmental Pollution up to the End of the Thirteenth Century", ''Environment and History'' '''8''' (4), pp. 475-488.</ref> |
* [[Al-Kindi]], pioneer of [[environmental science]]<ref>L. Gari (2002), "Arabic Treatises on Environmental Pollution up to the End of the Thirteenth Century", ''Environment and History'' '''8''' (4), pp. 475-488.</ref> |
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== Neuroscientists and Psychologists == |
== Neuroscientists and Psychologists == |
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* [[Muhammad]], |
* [[Muhammad]], discussed [[mental health]]<ref name=Talib/> |
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⚫ | * [[Ibn Sirin]] (654–728), author of work on [[dream]]s and [[dream interpretation]]<ref name=Amber-375>Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists", ''Journal of Religion and Health'' '''43''' (4): 357-377 [375].</ref> |
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* [[Al-Kindi]] (Alkindus), pioneer of [[psychotherapy]] and [[music therapy]]<ref name=Saoud>{{cite web |url=http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Music2.pdf |title=The Arab Contribution to the Music of the Western World |accessdate=2007-01-12 |format=PDF |author= Saoud, R}}</ref> |
* [[Al-Kindi]] (Alkindus), pioneer of [[psychotherapy]] and [[music therapy]]<ref name=Saoud>{{cite web |url=http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Music2.pdf |title=The Arab Contribution to the Music of the Western World |accessdate=2007-01-12 |format=PDF |author= Saoud, R}}</ref> |
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* [[Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari]], pioneer of [[psychiatry]], [[clinical psychiatry]] and [[clinical psychology]]<ref name=Amber>Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions |
* [[Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari]], pioneer of [[psychiatry]], [[clinical psychiatry]] and [[clinical psychology]]<ref name=Amber>Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists", ''Journal of Religion and Health'' '''43''' (4): 357-377 [361]</ref> |
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* [[Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi]], pioneer of [[mental health]],<ref name=Talib>Nurdeen Deuraseh and Mansor Abu Talib (2005), "Mental health in Islamic medical tradition", ''The International Medical Journal'' '''4''' (2), p. 76-79.</ref> [[medical psychology]], [[cognitive psychology]], [[cognitive therapy]], [[psychophysiology]] and [[psychosomatic medicine]]<ref>Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists", ''Journal of Religion and Health'' '''43''' (4): 357-377 [362]</ref> |
* [[Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi]], pioneer of [[mental health]],<ref name=Talib>Nurdeen Deuraseh and Mansor Abu Talib (2005), "Mental health in Islamic medical tradition", ''The International Medical Journal'' '''4''' (2), p. 76-79.</ref> [[medical psychology]], [[cognitive psychology]], [[cognitive therapy]], [[psychophysiology]] and [[psychosomatic medicine]]<ref>Amber Haque (2004), "Psychology from Islamic Perspective: Contributions of Early Muslim Scholars and Challenges to Contemporary Muslim Psychologists", ''Journal of Religion and Health'' '''43''' (4): 357-377 [362]</ref> |
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* [[Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi]] (Rhazes), pioneer of [[psychiatric hospital]] |
* [[Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi]] (Rhazes), pioneer of [[psychiatric hospital]] |
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{{See|Islamic medicine}} |
{{See|Islamic medicine}} |
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* [[Muhammad]], |
* [[Muhammad]], discussed [[Infectious disease|contagion]]<ref name=Conrad>Lawrence I. Conrad and Dominik Wujastyk (2000), ''Contagion: Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies'', "A Ninth-Century Muslim Scholar's Discussion". [[Ashgate]], ISBN 0754602583.</ref><ref>Michael W. Dols (1983), "The Leper in Medieval Islamic Society", ''Speculum'' '''58''' (4), p. 891-916.</ref> and early Islamic medical treatments<ref name=Deuraseh>Nurdeen Deuraseh, "Ahadith of the Prophet (s.a.w) on Healing in Three Things (al-Shifa’ fi Thalatha): An Interpretational", ''Journal of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine'', 2003 (4): 14-20.</ref> |
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* [[Calid|Khalid ibn Yazid]] (Calid) |
* [[Calid|Khalid ibn Yazid]] (Calid) |
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* [[Jafar al-Sadiq]] |
* [[Jafar al-Sadiq]] |
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== Physicists == |
== Physicists == |
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* [[Jafar al-Sadiq]], 8th century |
* [[Jafar al-Sadiq]], 8th century |
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* [[Banū Mūsā]] (Ben Mousa), 9th century |
* [[Banū Mūsā]] (Ben Mousa), 9th century |
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* [[Ibn Yunus]], 10th century |
* [[Ibn Yunus]], 10th century |
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* [[Al-Karaji]], 10th century |
* [[Al-Karaji]], 10th century |
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* [[Ibn al-Haytham]] (Alhacen), 11th century [[Iraq]]i scientist, father of [[optics]], pioneer of [[scientific method]] and [[experimental physics]], considered the "first [[scientist]]" |
* [[Ibn al-Haytham]] (Alhacen), 11th century [[Iraq]]i scientist, father of [[optics]],<ref name=Deek>Dr. Mahmoud Al Deek. "Ibn Al-Haitham: Master of Optics, Mathematics, Physics and Medicine", ''Al Shindagah'', November-December 2004.</ref> pioneer of [[scientific method]]<ref>Rosanna Gorini (2003), "Al-Haytham the Man of Experience: First Steps in the Science of Vision", ''International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine'', Institute of Neurosciences, Laboratory of Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology, Rome, Italy.</ref> and [[experimental physics]],<ref>Rüdiger Thiele (2005). "In Memoriam: Matthias Schramm", ''Arabic Sciences and Philosophy'' '''15''', p. 329–331. [[Cambridge University Press]].</ref> considered the "first [[scientist]]"<ref>Bradley Steffens (2006), ''Ibn al-Haytham: First Scientist'', Morgan Reynolds Publishing, ISBN 1599350246.</ref> |
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* [[Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī]], 11th century, pioneer of [[:Category:Experimental mechanics|experimental mechanics]] |
* [[Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī]], 11th century, pioneer of [[:Category:Experimental mechanics|experimental mechanics]]<ref>Mariam Rozhanskaya and I. S. Levinova (1996), "Statics", in Roshdi Rashed, ed., ''[[Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science]]'', Vol. 2, p. 614-642 [642], [[Routledge]], London and New York.</ref> |
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* [[Avicenna]], 11th century |
* [[Avicenna]], 11th century |
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* [[Al-Khazini]], 12th century |
* [[Al-Khazini]], 12th century |
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* [[Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi]] (Nathanel), 12th century |
* [[Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi]] (Nathanel), 12th century |
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* [[Averroes]], 12th century [[Al-Andalus|Andalusian]] mathematician, philosopher and medical expert |
* [[Averroes]], 12th century [[Al-Andalus|Andalusian]] mathematician, philosopher and medical expert |
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* [[Al-Jazari]], 13th century civil engineer, father of [[robotics]], father of modern [[engineering]] |
* [[Al-Jazari]], 13th century civil engineer, father of [[robotics]],<ref name=Vallely>Paul Vallely, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060311/ai_n16147544 How Islamic Inventors Changed the World], ''[[The Independent]]'', 11 March 2006.</ref> father of modern [[engineering]]<ref>[http://www.mtestudios.com/news_100_years.htm 1000 Years of Knowledge Rediscovered at Ibn Battuta Mall], MTE Studios.</ref> |
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* [[Nasir al-Din Tusi]], 13th century |
* [[Nasir al-Din Tusi]], 13th century |
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* [[Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi]], 13th century |
* [[Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi]], 13th century |
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* [[Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie]], 20th century [[Indonesia]]n aerospace engineer and president |
* [[Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie]], 20th century [[Indonesia]]n aerospace engineer and president |
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* [[Abdul Qadeer Khan]], [[Pakistan]]i nuclear physicist |
* [[Abdul Qadeer Khan]], [[Pakistan]]i nuclear physicist |
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* [[Abdus Salam]], Pakistani physicist; [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] 1977 |
* [[Abdus Salam]], Pakistani physicist; [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] 1977<ref>[http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates All Nobel Laureates in Physics], [[Nobel Prize]]</ref> |
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* [[Abdul Kalam]], [[India]]n nuclear physicist |
* [[Abdul Kalam]], [[India]]n nuclear physicist |
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* [[Mehran Kardar]], Iranian theoretical physicist |
* [[Mehran Kardar]], Iranian theoretical physicist |
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* [[Cumrun Vafa]], Iranian mathematical physicist |
* [[Cumrun Vafa]], Iranian mathematical physicist |
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* [[Nima Arkani-Hamed]], American-born Iranian physicist |
* [[Nima Arkani-Hamed]], American-born Iranian physicist |
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==See also== |
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Science in the Islamic world has played an important role in the history of science. There have also been some notable Muslim scientists in the present day. The following is an incomplete list of notable Muslim scientists.
Astronomers and Astrophysicists
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Yaqūb ibn Tāriq
- Ibrahim al-Fazari
- Muhammad al-Fazari
- Mashallah
- Naubakht
- Al-Khwarizmi, also a mathematician
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar)
- Al-Farghani
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa)
- Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit)
- Al-Majriti
- Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (Albatenius)
- Al-Farabi (Abunaser)
- Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi
- Abu Sa'id Gorgani
- Kushyar ibn Labban
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin
- Al-Mahani
- Al-Marwazi
- Al-Nayrizi
- Al-Saghani
- Al-Farghani
- Abu Nasr Mansur
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (Kuhi)
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi
- Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī
- Ibn Yunus
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna
- Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel)
- Omar Khayyám
- Al-Khazini
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Ibn Tufail (Abubacer)
- Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi (Alpetragius)
- Averroes
- Al-Jazari
- Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī
- Anvari
- Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
- Ibn al-Shatir
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī
- Ulugh Beg, also a mathematician
- Taqi al-Din, Ottoman astronomer
- Ahmad Nahavandi
- Haly Abenragel
- Ghallia Kaouk
- Abolfadl Harawi
- Kerim Kerimov, a founder of Soviet space program and a lead architect behind first human spaceflight (Vostok 1) and space stations (Salyut and Mir)[1][2]
- Farouk El-Baz, a NASA scientist involved in the first Moon landings with the Apollo program[3]
- Abdul Kalam
- Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Muhammed Faris
- Abdul Ahad Mohmand
- Talgat Musabayev
- Anousheh Ansari
- Amir Ansari
- Essam Heggy, a planetary scientist involved in the NASA Mars Exploration Program[4]
- Ahmed Salem
- Alaa Ibrahim
- Mohamed Sultan
- Ahmed Noor
- Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, pioneer of biomedical research in space[5][6]
Chemists and Alchemists
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Jabir Ibn Hayyan (Geber), father of chemistry[7][8][9]
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman)
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus)
- Al-Majriti
- Al-Razi (Rhazes)
- Ibn Miskawayh
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna
- Al-Khazini
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Hasan al-Rammah
- Ibn Khaldun
- Sake Dean Mahomet
- Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
- Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1999[10]
- Ali Eftekhari
Computer Scientists
- Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Iranian computer scientist; founder of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory[11][12]
- Jawed Karim, Bangladeshi American software engineer; lead architect of PayPal and co-founder of YouTube[13]
- Pierre Omidyar, Iranian American entrepeneur; founder of eBay[14]
Economists and Social Scientists
- Muhammad (570-632), discussed corporate social responsibility[15]
- Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man (699-767), economist
- Abu Yusuf (731-798), economist
- Ishaq bin Ali al-Rahwi (854–931), economist
- Al-Farabi (Alpharabius) (873–950), economist
- Shams al-Mo'ali Abol-hasan Ghaboos ibn Wushmgir (Qabus) (d. 1012), economist
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973-1048), considered the "first anthropologist"[16] and father of Indology[17]
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980–1037), economist
- Ibn Miskawayh (b. 1030), economist
- Al-Ghazali (Algazel) (1058–1111), economist
- Al-Mawardi (1075–1158), economist
- Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (Tusi) (1201-1274), economist
- Ibn al-Nafis (1213-1288), sociologist
- Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328), economist
- Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), father of demography,[18] cultural history,[19] historiography,[20] the philosophy of history,[21] sociology,[18][21] the social sciences,[22] and economics.[23][24]
- Al-Maqrizi (1364-1442), economist
- Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani social scientist; pioneer of microcredit
- Mahbub ul Haq, Pakistani economist; developer of Human Development Index and founder of Human Development Report[25][26]
- Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist; father of microcredit and microfinance[27][28]
Geographers and Earth Scientists
- Muhammad, discussed environmental philosophy[29]
- Al-Masudi, the "Herodotus of the Arabs", and pioneer of historical geography[30]
- Al-Kindi, pioneer of environmental science[31]
- Qusta ibn Luqa
- Al-Razi
- Ibn Al-Jazzar
- Al-Tamimi
- Al-Masihi
- Avicenna
- Ali ibn Ridwan
- Muhammad al-Idrisi, also a cartographer
- Ahmad ibn Fadlan
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, father of geodesy,[16][32] considered the first geologist and "first anthropologist"[16]
- Avicenna
- Ibn Jumay
- Abd-el-latif
- Averroes
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Ibn al-Quff
- Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Khaldun
- Piri Reis
- Evliya Çelebi
Mathematicians
- Further information: Islamic mathematics: Biographies
- Al-Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Matar
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (Algorismi) - father of algebra[33] and algorithms[34]
- Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī
- 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus)
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar)
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa)
- Al-Mahani
- Ahmed ibn Yusuf
- Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit)
- Al-Majriti
- Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (Albatenius)
- Al-Farabi (Abunaser)
- Abū Kāmil Shujā ibn Aslam
- Al-Nayrizi
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin
- Brethren of Purity
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
- Al-Saghani
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi
- Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī
- Ibn Sahl
- Al-Sijzi
- Ibn Yunus
- Abu Nasr Mansur
- Kushyar ibn Labban
- Al-Karaji
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen/Alhazen)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna
- Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi
- Al-Nasawi
- Al-Jayyani
- Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel)
- Al-Mu'taman ibn Hud
- Omar Khayyám
- Al-Khazini
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Al-Ghazali (Algazel)
- Al-Samawal
- Averroes
- Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī
- Ibn Mun`im
- Al-Marrakushi
- Ibn al-Banna'
- Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, 13th century Persian mathematician and philosopher
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
- Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī
- Al-Khalili
- Ibn al-Shatir
- Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī
- Ulugh Beg
- Taqi al-Din
- Muhammad Baqir Yazdi
- Ibn Baso
- Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Iranian computer scientist; founder of Fuzzy Mathematics and fuzzy set theory[11][12]
- Cumrun Vafa
Neuroscientists and Psychologists
- Muhammad, discussed mental health[35]
- Ibn Sirin (654–728), author of work on dreams and dream interpretation[36]
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus), pioneer of psychotherapy and music therapy[37]
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, pioneer of psychiatry, clinical psychiatry and clinical psychology[38]
- Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi, pioneer of mental health,[35] medical psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive therapy, psychophysiology and psychosomatic medicine[39]
- Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi (Rhazes), pioneer of psychiatric hospital
- Najab ud-din Muhammad, pioneer of mental disorder classification[40]
- Al-Farabi (Alpharabius), pioneer of social psychology and consciousness studies[41]
- Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi (Haly Abbas), pioneer of neuroanatomy, neurobiology and neurophysiology[41]
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis), pioneer of neurosurgery[42]
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen), founder of experimental psychology, psychophysics, phenomenology and visual perception[43]
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, pioneer of reaction time[44]
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina), pioneer of physiological psychology,[40] neuropsychiatry,[45] thought experiment, self-awareness and self-consciousness[46]
- Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), pioneer of neurology and neuropharmacology[42]
- Averroes, pioneer of Parkinson's disease[42]
- Ibn Tufail, pioneer of tabula rasa and nature versus nurture[47]
Physicians and Surgeons
- Muhammad, discussed contagion[48][49] and early Islamic medical treatments[50]
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Shapur ibn Sahl (d. 869), pioneer of pharmacy and pharmacopoeia[51]
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus) (801-873), pioneer of pharmacology[52]
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman) (810-887)
- Al-Jahiz, pioneer of natural selection
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, pioneer of medical encyclopedia[38]
- Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi
- Ishaq bin Ali al-Rahwi (854–931), pioneer of peer review and medical peer review[53]
- Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi (Rhazes), father of pediatrics,[54] and pioneer of allergology, immunology[55] and chemotherapy[56]
- Al-Farabi (Alpharabius)
- Abul Hasan al-Tabari - physician
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - physician
- Ibn Al-Jazzar
- Ali ibn Abbas al-Majusi (d. 994), pioneer of obstetrics and perinatology[57]
- Abu Gaafar Amed ibn Ibrahim ibn abi Halid al-Gazzar (10th century), pioneer of dental restoration[58]
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) - father of modern surgery, and pioneer of neurosurgery,[42] craniotomy,[57] hematology[59] and dental surgery[60]
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), pioneer of eye surgery, visual system[55] and visual perception[61]
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037) - father of modern medicine,[62] founder of Unani medicine,[59] pioneer of experimental medicine, evidence-based medicine, pharmaceutical sciences, clinical pharmacology,[54] aromatherapy,[63] pulsology and sphygmology,[64] and also a philosopher
- Ibn Miskawayh
- Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) - father of experimental surgery,[65] and pioneer of experimental anatomy, experimental physiology, human dissection, autopsy[66] and tracheotomy[67]
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Ibn Tufail (Abubacer)
- Averroes
- Ibn al-Baitar
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Ibn al-Nafis (1213-1288), father of circulatory physiology, pioneer of circulatory anatomy,[68] and founder of Nafisian anatomy, physiology,[69] pulsology and sphygmology[70]
- Ibn al-Quff (1233-1305), pioneer of modern embryology[57]
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
- Ibn Khatima (14th century), pioneer of bacteriology and microbiology[71]
- Ibn al-Khatib (1313-1374)
- Mansur ibn Ilyas
- Saghir Akhtar - pharmacist
- Toffy Musivand
- Samuel Rahbar
- Muhammad B. Yunus, the "father of our modern view of fibromyalgia"[72]
- Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, pioneer of biomedical research in space[5][6]
Physicists
- Jafar al-Sadiq, 8th century
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa), 9th century
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman), 9th century
- Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit), 9th century
- Al-Saghani, 10th century
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (Kuhi), 10th century
- Ibn Sahl, 10th century
- Ibn Yunus, 10th century
- Al-Karaji, 10th century
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), 11th century Iraqi scientist, father of optics,[73] pioneer of scientific method[74] and experimental physics,[75] considered the "first scientist"[76]
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, 11th century, pioneer of experimental mechanics[77]
- Avicenna, 11th century
- Al-Khazini, 12th century
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), 12th century
- Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Nathanel), 12th century
- Averroes, 12th century Andalusian mathematician, philosopher and medical expert
- Al-Jazari, 13th century civil engineer, father of robotics,[9] father of modern engineering[78]
- Nasir al-Din Tusi, 13th century
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, 13th century
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, 13th century
- Hasan al-Rammah, 13th century
- Ibn al-Shatir, 14th century
- Taqi al-Din, 16th century
- Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, 17th century
- Lagari Hasan Çelebi, 17th century
- Sake Dean Mahomet, 18th century
- Tipu Sultan, 18th century Indian mechanician
- Fazlur Khan, 20th century Bangladeshi mechanician
- Mahmoud Hessaby, 20th century Iranian physicist
- Ali Javan, 20th century Iranian physicist
- Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 20th century Indonesian aerospace engineer and president
- Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist
- Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 1977[79]
- Abdul Kalam, Indian nuclear physicist
- Mehran Kardar, Iranian theoretical physicist
- Cumrun Vafa, Iranian mathematical physicist
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, American-born Iranian physicist
Political Scientists
See also
- List of Arab scientists and scholars
- List of Iranian scientists and scholars
- Islamic science
- Islamic Golden Age
- Timeline of science and technology in the Islamic world
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