List of Christian scientists and scholars of the medieval Islamic world

This is a list of Christian scientists and scholars from the Muslim World and Spain (Al-Andalus) who lived during medieval Islam up until the beginning of the modern age. Christian converts to Islam are also included.

The following Muslim naming articles are not used for indexing:

• Al - the
• ibn, bin, banu - son of
• abu - father of, the one with

A

• Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu (940–1058) Syriac physician.
• Athanasius II Baldoyo Syriac Orthodox historian and Patriarch of Antioch.
• Ammar al-Basri 9th-century East Syrian theologian and apologist.
• Anthony of Tagrit 9th-century West Syrian Syriac theologian and Rhetorician.
• Abdisho bar Berika (died 1318) Syriac writer and bishop.

B

• Bukhtishu (7th-9th centuries) family of syriac Christian physicians
• ibn Batriq (877 – 940) physician and melkite Patriarch of Alexandria.
• Ibn Butlan (1038, 1075) Arab Nestorian Christian physician.
• Abu Bishr Matta ibn Yunus (870-20 June 940) Nestorian Christian philosopher and translator.

D

• Dionysius I Telmaharoyo (d 845) Syriac Orthodox historian Patriarch of Antioch

H

• Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809 – 873) Arab Christian scholar, physician, and a scientist.

I

• Ishaq ibn Hunayn (c. 830 – c. 910-1) Arab Christian physician and translator.
• Ishodad of Merv (fl. 850 AD) Syriac theologian and writer.

J

• Jabril ibn Bukhtishu 8th century Nestorian physician
• Ibn Jazla (11th-century) Nestorian Christian physician.
• Jacob Bar-Salibi most prolific writer in the Syriac Orthodox Church of the twelfth century.
• Jacob of Edessa(c. 640 – 5 June 708) Syriac apologist and Philosopher.
• John III of the Sedre theologian
• John bar Penkaye 7th century historian.

K

• Abu Yûsuf ibn Ishâq al-Kindī Arab Christian scholar and Apologist

M

• Masawaiyh (circa 777–857) Nestorian Christian physician.
• Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi Persian Christian physician.
• Masawaih al-Mardini Nestorian Christian physician.
• Michael the Syrian (died 1199 AD) Syriac Orthodox Chronologist and Patriarchs of Antioch.

N

• Nastulus

Q

• Qusta ibn Luqa (820–912) Syrian Melkite physician, scientist and translator.
• Qudama ibn Ja'far (873–ca.932/948) Syriac scholar and philosopher.

R

• Ishaq bin Ali al-Rohawi 9th-century Arab physician and the author of the first medical ethics book in Arabic medicine.
• Abu Raita al-Takriti Syriac Orthodox theologian and apologist.

S

• Shapur ibn Sahl (d. 869 CE) Persian Christian physician from the Academy of Gundishapur.
• Salmawaih ibn Bunan (died 840) Assyrian Nestorian Christian physician and translator.
• Serapion the Younger
• Sahl ibn Bishr (c. 786–845 ?) Syriac Christian astrologer, astronomer and mathematician.

T

• Ibn al-Tilmīdh (1074 – 1165) Syriac Christian physician, pharmacist, poet, musician and calligrapher.
• Theodosius Romanus (died 1 June 896) Syriac Orthodox translator and Patriarch of Antioch.
• Theodore Abu Qurrah (c. 750 – c. 823) Orthodox Christian theologian and writer.
• Thomas of Marga 9th century East Syrian bishop and author of an important monastic history in Syriac.

U

• Ibn Uthal 7th-century Arab Christian physician

Y

• Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century) Syriac physician.
• Yuhanna ibn Bukhtishu (9th-century) Nestorian Christian physician.
• Yahya Ibn al-Batriq Syrian astronomer and translator.
• Yahya ibn Adi (893–974) Syriac Jacobite philosopher, theologian and translator.

Z

• Ibn Zur'a (943–1008) Syriac Jacobite Christian physician and philosopher.

See also

• Islamic science
• List of Muslim scientists
• List of Iranian scientists and scholars
• List of Arab scientists and scholars
• List of Turkic scholars
• List of medieval European scientists