List_of_Muslim_scientists

List of scientists in medieval Islamic world

List of scientists in medieval Islamic world

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Islamic scientific achievements encompassed a wide range of subject areas, especially medicine, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture as well as physics, economics, engineering and optics.[1][2][3][4][5]

Muslim scientists who have contributed significantly to science and civilization in the Islamic Golden Age (i.e. from the 8th century to the 14th century) include:

Astronomers and astrologers

Physiologists

Further information: Psychology in the medieval Islamic world

Chemists and alchemists

Further information: Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world

Economists and social scientists

Further information: History of Islamic economics
See also: List of Muslim historians and Historiography of early Islam

Geographers and earth scientists

Further information: Arab Agricultural Revolution

Mathematicians

Further information: Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world

Philosophers

Further information: List of Muslim philosophers

Physicists and engineers

Further information: Physics in the medieval Islamic world

See also

Notes

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    King, David A. (1983). "The Astronomy of the Mamluks". Isis. 74 (4): 531–55. doi:10.1086/353360. S2CID 144315162.
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    Hassan, Ahmad Y. 1996. "Factors Behind the Decline of Islamic Science After the Sixteenth Century." Pp. 351–99 in Islam and the Challenge of Modernity, edited by S. S. Al-Attas. Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
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    "Contributions of Islamic scholars to the scientific enterprise" (PDF).
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    "The greatest scientific advances from the Muslim world". TheGuardian.com. February 2010.
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    Haque 2004, p. 375.
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    Saoud 2004.
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    Haque 2004, p. 361.
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    Deuraseh & Abu Talib 2005.
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    Haque 2004, p. 362.
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    Haque 2004, p. 363.
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    Martin-Araguz et al. 2002.
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    Khaleefa 1999.
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    Iqbal 1934.
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    Safavi-Abbasi, Brasiliense & Workman 2007.
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    Nasr & Leaman 1996.
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    Russell 1994.
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    Rosenthal 1950, p. 559.
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    Ahmed 1984.
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    Khan 2000.
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    Ahmed 2002.
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    Mowlana 2001.
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    Abdalla 2007.
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    Ahmed 1999.
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    Akhtar 1997.
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    Oweiss 1988.
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    Boulakia 1971.
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    "Mas'udi, al-". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006.
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    Gari 2002.
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    Gandz 1936.
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    Nanisetti 2006.
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    O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Abu'l Hasan ibn Ali al Qalasadi", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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    Al Deek 2004.
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    Thiele 2005.
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    Rozhanskaya & Levinova 1996.

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