List of Islamic scholars described as father or founder of a field
The following is a list of internationally recognized Muslim scholars of medieval Islamic civilization who have been described as the father or the founder of a field by some modern scholars:
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, "father of modern surgery"[1] and the "father of operative surgery".[2]
- Ibn Al-Nafis, "father of circulatory physiology and anatomy.[3][4][5]
- Abbas Ibn Firnas, father of medieval aviation.[6][7]
- Alhazen, "father of modern optics".[8][9]
- Jabir ibn Hayyan, father of chemistry
- Ibn Khaldun father of sociology, historiography and modern economics. He is best known for his Muqaddimah.
- Ibn Sina father of early modern medicine.[10]
- 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi, also known as Haly Abbas: founder of anatomic physiology".[11] In addition, the section on dermatology in his Kamil as-sina'ah at-tibbiyah (Royal book-Liber Regius) has one scholar to regard him as the "father of Arabic dermatology".[12]
- Al-Biruni: the "founder of Indology", "father of comparative religion" and geodesy, and "first anthropologist" titles for his remarkable description of early 11th-century India.[13] Georg Morgenstierne regarded him as "the founder of comparative studies in human culture".[14] Al-Biruni is also known as the "father of Islamic pharmacy".[15][16]
- Al-Khawarizmi: most renowned as the "father of algebra". Solomon Gandz states: "In a sense, Khwarizmi is more entitled to be called "the father of algebra" than Diophantus because Khwarizmi is the first to teach algebra in an elementary form and for its own sake, Diophantus is primarily concerned with the theory of numbers".[17]
- Ibn Hazm: father of comparative religion and "honoured in the West as that of the founder of the science of comparative religion".[18] Alfred Guillaume refers to him the composer of "the first systematic higher critical study of the Old and New testaments".[19] However, William Montgomery Watt disputes the claim, stating that Ibn Hazm's work was preceded by earlier works in Arabic and that "the aim was polemical and not descriptive".[20]
- Al-Farabi: regarded as the "founder of Islamic/Arab Neoplatonism"[21][22] and by some as the "father of formal logic in the Islamic world".[23][24]
- Muhammad al-Idrisi: father of world map[25]
- Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126-1198): known in west as The Commentator, "father of free thought and unbelief"[26][27] and has been described by some as the "father of rationalism"[28] and the "founding father of secular thought in Western Europe".[29][30] Ernest Renan called Averroes the absolute rationalist, and regarded him as the father of freethought and dissent.[31]
- Rhazes: His treatise on Diseases in Children has led many to consider him the "father of pediatrics".[32][33][34] He has also been praised as the "real founder of clinical medicine in Islam".[35]
- Muhammad al-Shaybani: the father of Muslim international law.[36]
- Ismail al-Jazari: Father of Automaton and Robotics.[37]
- Suhrawardi: founder of the Illuminationist school of Islamic philosophy.[38][39]
- Al-Tusi, "father of trigonometry" as a mathematical discipline in its own right.[40][41][42]
See also
- List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field
- Islamic Golden Age
- Science in medieval Islam
- Timeline of science and engineering in the Islamic world
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One of his best known treatises was on Diseases in Children, and in some circles he has been acclaimed as the father of pediatrics.
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One of al-Tusi's most important mathematical contributions was the creation of trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right rather than as just a tool for astronomical applications. In Treatise on the quadrilateral al-Tusi gave the first extant exposition of the whole system of plane and spherical trigonometry. This work is really the first in history on trigonometry as an independent branch of pure mathematics and the first in which all six cases for a right-angled spherical triangle are set forth.
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His major contribution in mathematics (Nasr, 1996, pp. 208-14) is said to be in trigonometry, which for the first time was compiled by him as a new discipline in its own right. Spherical trigonometry also owes its development to his efforts, and this includes the concept of the six fundamental formulas for the solution of spherical right-angled triangles.