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Ibn Al-Nadim (d. 993) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Abu Al-Faraj Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Abi Ya'qub Al-Nadim Al-Warraq Al-Baghdadî (d. 993) Ibn Al-Nadim was a historian and bibliographer. He completed in 987-88 his "Index of the Sciences" or Fihrist al-Ulum.
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Yuhanna ibn Sarabiyun (beginning of 9th century) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Yuhanna ibn Sarabiyun (beginning of 9th century) known in Latin as Ibn Serapion, Yuhanna ibn Sarabiyun was a geographer. He authored a book on geography containing a description of the various seas, islands, lakes, mountains and rivers of the world. His descriptions of the Euphrates and Tigris and of the Nile are very significant. His account of the canals of Baghdad is our main basis of the reconstruction of the medieval plan of that city.
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Al-Fazarî Muhammad ibn Ibrahim (d. 777 C.E.). |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Habib ibn Suleiman ibn Samura ibn Jundab Al-Fazari was the first Muslim astronomer to construct astrolabes. He flourished around the second half of the 8th century CE in Baghdad.
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Jamshid Al-Kashi (1380-1436) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Jamshid Al-Kashi devoted himself to astronomy and mathematics while moving from town to town. On March 1st 1407 he completed his treatise Sullam Al-Sama / The Stairway of Heaven, a work on the distances and sizes of the heavenly bodies. Years later, his Mukhtasar dar ilm-I-hayat / Compendium of the Science of Astronomy written during 1410-11 was dedicated to Sultan Iskander as is indicated in the copy in the British museum.
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Al-Maqrizî (d. 1441) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Al-Maqrizî was a man of the law and a teacher in Cairo who collected his material, a great deal of which is absolutely unique, to compile his major work Kitâb Al-Khitat.
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Izz Al-Din Al-Wafaî (d. 1469) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Al-Wafaî was primarily a mathematician, muezzin and muwaqqit at the Muayyad mosque in Cairo and wrote a staggering number of forty treatises as listed by Rosenfeld and Ihsanoglu.
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Hasan ibn Hussain Al-Tuluni (1432/3-1517) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Hasan ibn Hussain Al-Tulunî belonged to a famed family of architects. Amongst his many works, he is known to have erected the mausoleum of khusqadam in Cairo, for which he received a robe of honour in 1462.
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Kamal Al-Din Al-Damiri (1349-1405) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Although fundamentally a preacher and legal cleric, Al-Damiri wrote one of the greatest medieval works on zoology and animals. This work, Hayat Al-Hayawan (The Life of Animals) has been edited repeatedly and has also been translated into English by Lieutenant Colonel Jayakar.
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Ibn Al-Furat (1334-1405) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Ibn Al-Furat was born in Cairo and lived between the years 1334-1405. He was a Hanafite scholar of Cairo, where he studied with notable scholars of the time.
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Muhyi Al-Din ibn Abd Al-Zâhir (1223-1292) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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One of the historians of Mamluk Egypt was Muhyi Al-Din Ibn Abd Al-Zâhir (1223-92) who wrote a contemporary biography of Baybars (ruled 1260-1277). He also wrote biographies of his successors, Qalawun (ruled 1279-90) and his son Al-Ashraf (1290-3).
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