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Timeline of Scientists during Islamic Rule PDF Print E-mail

622 – 632 CE Prophetic Period (in Madinah)
632 – 661 CE Sahabah Period
661 – 750 CE ‘Ummayah Period
750 – 1517 CE ‘Abbasi Period
1517 – 1924 CE ‘Uthmani Period
 

Year CE/ Birth Place

Name of Scientist

Field of Science

Famous Works

704   

خالد ابن يزيد ابن معاوي
Khalid Ibn Yazid ibn Muawiya

Alchemy

رسالة مريانس الراهب الحكيم لامير خالد ابن يزيد Masa’il / Risalat Mariyanus al-Rahib al-ḥakim lil-amir Khalid ibn Yazid (Questions / correspondence of Marianos the Monk with the prince Khalid ibn Yazid)

 

721-815
Iran

جابر ابن حيان

Jabir ibn Hayyan

Alchemist

Kitab al-Zuhra (Book of Venus)

Kitab Al-Ahjar (Book of Stones),

Theory of the balance in Nature

740-828
Iraq

‘Abd al-Malik ibn al-Quraib al-Asmai

Zoology, Botany, Animal Husbandry

Kitab al-Ibil, Kitab al-Khalil

Kitab al-Wuhush

Kitab al-Sha

Kitab Khalq al-Insan

777-857
Iran

Yuhanna ibn Masawaih

Medicine

Daghal al-ain (Disorders of the eye)

780-850
Uzbekistan

محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي

Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi

Mathematics, Astronomy

الكتاب المختصر في حساب الجبر والمقابلة
Al-Kitab al-Mukhtasur fi Hisab al-Jabr wa al-Muqabala (The Book of Restitution and Comparison) 

787-886
Afghanistan

Ja‘far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma’shar al-Balkhi

Astronomy

Kitab al-mudkhal al-kabir ila 'ilm ahkam an-nujjum (The Greater Introduction to Astrology)

796
Afghanistan

ابراهيم الفزارى
Ibrahim al-Fazari

Astronomy, Mathematics, Translation

Sindhind

800-873
Iraq

يعقوب ابن إسحاق الكندي
Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi

Philosophy, Physics, Optics

Rasa’il al-Kindi al-Falsafiya (Philosophical Treatises of al-Kindi)

Fi al-Falsafa al-Ula (On First Philosophy)

Risalah fi al-Hilah li-daf‘ al-Ahzan (On the Art of Averting Sorrows)

Fi hudud al-Ashya’ wa-Rusumiha (On the Definitions of Things and their Descriptions)

Fi Wahdaniya Allah wa Tunahiy jirm al-‘Alam (On the Unity of God and the Limitation of the Body of the World)

Fi Kammiya Kutub Aristutalis wa ma Yahtaj Ilahi fi Tahsil al-Falsafa (The Quantity of the Books of Aristotle and What is Required for the Acquisition of Philosophy)

808-873
Iraq

حنين ابن اسحق
Hunayn ibn Ishaq

Medicine, Optics, Translator

Kitab al-Masa'il fi al-Tibb li-l-Muta‘allimin (Questions on Medicine for Beginners)

828-889
Iran

Abu Hanifa Ahmed ibn Dawood al-Dinawari

Mathematics, Linguistics

Kitab al-Jabr wa'l-Muqabila (Book of Algebra)

Kitab al-Nabat (Book of Plants)

Kitab al-Kusuf (Book of Solar Eclipses)

Kitab al-Radd ala Rasad al-Isfahani (Refutation of al-Isfahani's Astronomical Observations)

Kitab al-Hisab (Book of Arithmetic)

Bahth fi Hisab al-Hind (Analysis of Indian Arithmetics)

Kitab al-Jam' wa'l-Tafriq (Book of Arithmetics)

Kitab al-Qibla wa'l-Ziwal (Book of Astral Orientations)

Kitab al-Anwa' (Book of Weather)

Islah al-Mantiq (Improvement upon Logic)

Akhbar al-Tiwal (General History)

Kitab al-Kabir (Grand Book)

Kitab al-Fisaha (Book of Rhetorics)

Kitab al-Buldan (Book of Geography)

Kitab al-Shi'r wa'l-Shu'ara (Book of Poetry and Poets)

Ansab al-Akrad (Ancestry of the Kurds)

836-981
Turkey

ثابت بن قرة بن مروان
Thabit ibn Qurrah ibn Marwan

Astronomy, Mechanics

 

838-870
Iran

Ali ibn Rabban al-Tabari

Medicine, Mathematics

Firdous al-Hikmat (Paradise of Wisdom)

Deen-o-Doulat

Hifdh al-Sehhat

868-929
Turkey

أبو عبد الله البتاني
Abu Abdullah al-Battani

Mathematics, Astronomy, Engineering

كتاب الزيج (The Book of Tables)

On the Movements of the Stars

Astronomy

867
Uzbekistan

أبو العبّاس أحمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani

Astronomy, Civil Engineering

Kitab fi al-Harakat al-Samawiya wa Jawami Ilm al-Nujum (The Book on Celestial Motion and thorough Science of the Stars)

Kitab al-Fusul, Ikhtiyar al-Majisti (The Book of Chapters, a Summary of the Almagest)

Kitab 'Amal al-Rukhamat (Book on the Construction of Sun-dials)

865-925
Iran

ابو بکر محمد بن زكريا الرازی

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi

Medicine,Ophthalmology, Chemistry

الحاوي (The Virtuous Life)

من لا يحضره الطبيب (A Medical advisor for the General Public)

Shukuk 'ala Alinusor (Doubts About Galen)

Al-Asrar (The Secret)

Sirr al-Asrar (Secret of Secrets)

870-950
Turkistan

 

محمد فارابی
Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn al-Farakh al-Farabi

Sociology, Logic, Science, Music

Kitab al-Musiqa al-Kabir (The Great Book of Music)

Al-Madina al-Fadila (The Virtuous City)

Risala fi’l-‘Aql (Epistle on the Intellect)

Kitab al-Huruf (The Book of Letters)

Kitab ihsa’ al-‘Ulum (The Book of the Enumeration of the Sciences)

990
Iran

Abu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi

Astronomy

 

903-986
Iran

عبدالرحمن الصوفي‎

‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

Astronomy

Book of Fixed Stars

912

Al-Tamimi Muhammad Ibn Amyal   

Alchemy

 

923
Iran

أبو العباس الفضل بن حاتم النيريزي

Abu'l Abbas Al-Fadl Ibn Hatim Al-Nayrizi

Mathematics, Astronomy

 

930-1030
Iran

ابن مسكوويه

Ahmad ibn Muhammad Miskawayh

Medicine, Alchemy

Tadhib al-akhlaq (Ethical Instruction)

932
Iran

Abu-l-Hasan Ahmed ibn Muhammad al-Tabari  

Medicine

Kitab al-Mu'alaja al-Buqratiya (Book of Hippocratic Treatment)

936-1013
Spain

أبو القاسم بن خلف بن العباس الزهراوي

Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi

Surgery, Medicine

Al-Tasrif

940-997
Iran

Muhammad Al-Buzjani   

Mathematics, Astronomy, Geometry

Kitab 'Ilm al-Hisab (Book of Arithmetic)

Al-Kitab al-Kamil (The Complete Book)

Kitab al-Handsa (Applied Geometry)

943-969
Iraq

Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn Hawqal

Geography

Kitab Surat al-Ard (Picture of the Earth)

960
Iraq

Ibn Wahshiyh

Alchemy, Botany

Al-Fillahah an-Nabatiyah (Nabatean Agriculture)

965-1040
Iraq

أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم

Abu ‘Ali al-Haṣan ibn al-Haṣan ibn al-Haytham

Physics, Optics, Mathematics

Kitab al-Manadhir (Book of Optics)

Mizan al-Hikmah

973-1040
Uzbekistan

أبو الريحان البيروني

Abu Raihan Al-Biruni   

Astronomy, Mathematics

تحقيق ما للهند من مقولة معقولة في العقل أم مرذولة
(Critical study of what India says, whether accepted by reason or refused) 

الآثار الباقية عن القرون الخالية (The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries)

قانون مسعودي (The Mas'udi Canon)

التفهيم لصناعة التنجيم (Understanding Astrology)

الجماهر في معرفة الجواهر (Gems)

Al-Qanun Al-Masudi Fi Al-Hai'a Wa Al-Nujum

Kitab-al-Saidana

976

Ahmad ibn Abi al-Ash’ath

Medicine

Quwa al-Adwiyyah

Al-Ghadhi wal-Mughtadhi

980-1037
Uzbekistan

أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله بن سينا

Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Sina

Medicine, Philosophy, Mathematics

Qanun fil Tibb (The Canon of Medicine)

+ 450 other books

998-1067
Egypt

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ridwan ibn Ali Ibn Ja‘far al-Misri

Medicine

Fi dal' mudar al-Abdan bi ard Misr

1019

Al-Hasib Alkarji

Mathematics

 

1029-1087
Spain

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Yahya Al-Zarqali

Astronomy

Almanac

1044-1123
Iran

Ghiyath al-Din Abul Fateh Omar Ibn Ibrahim Al-Khayyam

Mathematics, Poetry

Maqalat fi al-Jabr wa al-Muqabila

Risala Dar Wujud

Nauruz Namah

Rubaiyat

1077

Ibn Abi-Sadia Abul Qasim

Medicine

 

1091-1161
Spain

Abu Marwan ibn Zuhr

Surgery, Medicine

Kitab al-Taisir fi al-Mudawat wa al-Tadbir (Book of Simplification concerning Therapeutics and Diet)

Kitab al-Iqtisad fi Islah al-Anfus wa al-Ajsad (Book of the Middle Course concerning the Reformation of Souls and the Bodies)

Kitab al-Aghthiya (Book on Foodstuffs)

1095

Mohammed ibn Yahya ibn Bajah

 

 

1099-1166
Spain

أبو عبد الله محمد الإدريسي

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi

Geography

Al-Kitab al-Rujari (Roger's Book)

Kitab al-Jami-li-Sifat Ashtat al-Nabatat

1105-1185
Spain

أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن محمد بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail al-Qaisi al-Andalusi

Philosophy, Medicine

حي بن يقظان (Alive son of Awake)

1120

Al-Husain ibn Ali al-Tuhraee

Alchemy, Poetry

 

1126-1198
Spain

ابو الوليد محمد ابن احمد ابن محمد ابن رشد
Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rushd

Philosophy, Medicine

Bidayat al-Mujtahid wa-Nihayat- al-Muqtasid

Kitab al-Kulyat fi al-Tibb

Tuhafut al-Tuhafut

Kitab fi-Harakat al-Falak

1135-1204
Spain

Abu `Imran Musa ibn `Ubayd Allah ibn Maymun al-Qurtubi

Medicine, Philosophy

Fi al-Bawasir (Haemorrhoids)

1140

Al-Badee Al-Ustralabi

Astronomy, Mathematics

 

1155

Abdel-al Rahman AlKhazin

Astronomy

 

1163-1231
Iraq

Muwaffaq al-Din Abu Muhammad ibn Yusuf ‘Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi

Medicine, Geography

Al-Ifada wa al-Itibar

1165

Ibn A-Rumiyyah Abul'Abbas

Botany

 

1173-1243
Syria

Rashid al-Din al-Mansur ibn al-Suri

Botany

 

1184-1253
Tunisia

Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Tifashi

Metallurgy, Stones

Azhar Al-Afkar fi Jawahir Al-Ahjar (Flowering Ideas on Gemstones)

1197-1248
Spain

Dhya uddin Abu Mohammed Abdallah ibn Ahmed al-Malaky (also known as Ibn al-Baytar)

Botany, Medicine, Pharmacology

Kitab-ul-Jami fil Adwiyah al-Mufradah (Dictionary of Simple remedies and food) 

Al-Mughni fi al-Adwiyah (The Sufficient)

1201-1274
Iran

Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Astronomy, Non-Euclidean Geometry

Al-Zij-Ilkhani

Akhlaq-i-Nasri

Tajrid-al-'Aqaid

1203-1270
Iraq

Ibn Abi Usaybia

Medicine

Uyun al-anba fi tabaqat al-Attibba (Sources of information on the Classes of Physicians) 

1204
Morocco

Nur al-Din ibn Ishaq al-Bitruji

Astronomy

Kitab-al-Hay’ah

1206
Iraq

بديع الزمان ابو العز بن إسماعيل بن الرزاز الجزاري
Ibn Ismail ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari

Engineering

Al-Jami Bain Al-Ilm Wal-Amal Al-Nafi Fi Sinat'at Al-Hiyal

Kitab fí Ma'rifat al-Hiyal al-Handasiyya (The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices)

1213-1288
Iraq

علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي الدمشقي
Ala al-Din Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi

Anatomy, Medicine

Al-Shamil fi al-Tibb

Mujaz al-Qanun

Kitab al-Mukhtar fi al-Aghdhiya

1236-1311
Iran

Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi

Astronomy, Geography

Nihayat al-Idrak fi Dirayat al-Aflak (The Limit of Accomplishment concerning Knowledge of the Heavens)

Al-Tuhfat al-Shahiya (The Royal Present)

1256-1321
Morocco

Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Uthman al-Azdi (also know as Ibn al-Banna)

Medicine, Mathematics

Talkhis amal al-hisab (Summary of arithmetical operations)

Tanbih al-Albab

Raf al-Hijab (Lifting the Veil)

1204

Al-Hassan al-Murarakishi   

Mathematics, Astronomy, Geography

 

1260-1320
Iran

كمال الدين ابوالحسن محمد الفارسي
Kamal al-Din Abu al-Hasan Muhammad al-Farisi

Astronomy, Physics

Tanqih

Tadhkira al-Ahbab fi Bayan al-Tahabb (Memorandum for friends on the proof of amicability) 

1273-1331
Iraq

Abu Al-fida' Isma'il Ibn 'ali Al-malik Al-mu'ayyad 'imad Ad-din (alsom known as أبو الفدا or Abu al-Fida)

Astronomy, Geography

Tarikhu al-mukhtasar fi Akhbari al-basha (The Concise History of Humanity or Chronicles)

Tarikh Abul Fida

Taqwim al-Buldan (A Sketch of the countries)

1306

Ibn al-Shater al-Dimashqi   

Astronomy, Mathematics

 

1341

Muhammad Ibn Aidamer al-Jildaki

Alchemy

 

1351

Abu Abbas ibn Tanbugha ibn al-Majdi

Mathematics, Astronomy

 

1380-1429
Iran

Ghiyaseddin Jamsheed Kashani (also known as al-Kashi)

Astronomy, Mathematics

Compendium of the Science of Astronomy

The Key to Arithmetic

1394-1449
Uzbekistan

Muhammed Taragai Ulugh Beg

Astronomy, Mathematics

 

1609-1640
Turkey

Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi

Flight, Rocketry

 

1600s

Muhammad Baqir Yazdi

Mathematics

 

1750-1799
India

Tipu Sultan

Rocketry

 

 

 

 

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