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Ibn Ishaq (d. 768) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 03 August, 2007 |
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Ibn Ishaq's writing was primarily concerned with the biography of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) (Sirat Al-Rasul Allah) and the first wars of Islam (Al-Maghazi).
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Abu Muhammad 'Abdallah ibn al-Hafid (1181/2 - 1205/6) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 02 August, 2007 |
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Abu Muhammad 'Abdallah ibn al-Hafid was born in Seville in 1181-2. He became a successful physician in the Almohad service, and just as his father, he died (poisoned) in 1205-6, and was buried in Seville near his family ancestors.
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Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik (d. 1199) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 02 August, 2007 |
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Ibn Zuhr's only son, nicknamed al-Hafid (the grandson), was born in Seville in 1110-1111 (or 1113-1114), and died in 1199.
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Ibn Zuhr (1091/4 – 1161/2) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 02 August, 2007 |
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Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar, Abhomeron Avenzoar) (1091/4 – 1161/2 is one of the best known and most renowned physician, clinician and parasitologist of the Muslim Spanish period in the Middle Ages.
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Abu Al-'Ala bin Abu Marwan ‘Abd al-Malik (d. 1130-1) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 02 August, 2007 |
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Abu Al-'Ala bin Abu Marwan ‘Abd al-Malik, who studied at Cordova at the school of Abu Al-Aina, a doctor who came from the Orient to Spain.
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Muhammad ibn Fattuh (d. 1237 C.E.) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 02 August, 2007 |
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Muhammad ibn Fattuh al-Khamairi, flourished in the early 13th century. He is known for eight works at least. In the year 1212-3 he constructed an astrolabe in Seville, which in 1873 could be found in the French collection of H. Sauvaire, who had acquired it in Cairo; however today's possessor of the object is unknown.
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Ahmed ibn Baso (1160 C.E.) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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A famed architect who also contributed to the erection of the Giralda, is Ahmad ibn Baso. He spent his youth in Seville, and in 1160 directed architectural works for the Almohads at Gibraltar, later erecting some public buildings and frontier fortresses in Cordova.
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Abu Ibrahim ibn Aflah Al-Rakham (1079 C.E.) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Abu Ibrahim ibn Aflah Al-Rakham, a marble mason, who in September 1079, completed restoration works at the Mosque of Seville after it had been damaged weeks before.
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Al-Nabatî (d. 1239/40) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Abu Abbas Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Mufarraj, often called al-Nabatî, or Ibn Rûmiya (son of the Christian woman), also Al-Hafiz (he who knows the Qur'an and Hadith [Tradition] by heart), was a Hispano-Muslim botanist born in Seville. His knowledge of plants was primarily derived from his direct study of them, and he seems to have been interested in them for their own sake, not just for medical purposes.
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Ibn Al-Awwam (12th century) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Ibn Al-Awwam was a Hispano-Muslim agriculturist who flourished in Seville at about the end of the twelfth century. He wrote a treatise on agriculture, Kitâb al-Filaha, which is the most important Muslim work as well as the most important mediaeval work on the subject.
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