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Al-Tamimi (10th Century) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Al-Tamimi was a Palestinian physician who conducted pharmaceutical experiments and wrote various medical works chiefly on Materia medica.
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Shihab Al-din Ahmed ibn Abi Bakr as-Sarraj Al-Hamawi (d. 1328-9) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Shihab Al-din Ahmed ibn Abi Bakr as-Sarraj al-Hamawi was the author of several books on scientific instruments and geometrical problems.
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Salah Al-Din ibn Yusuf Al-Kahhal bi-Hama (ca. 1296) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Salah Al-Din ibn Yusuf Al-Kahhal bi-Hama (i.e. the eye doctor of Hama) was a Syrian oculist who flourished in Hama in 1296. He wrote for his son a very elaborate treatise of ophthalmology entitled Nur al-Uyun wa Jami al-Funun (Light of the Eyes and Collection of Rules).
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Usama ibn Munqidh (1095-1188) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Usama ibn Munqidh wrote an autobiography entitled Kitab al-Ittibar (Learning by Example), which is regarded as being historically important and is one of the first larger works of its kind. Usama witnessed the first decades of Crusader onslaught and settlement in the Muslim lands, and was himself a fighter against them just as his own father was.
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Ibn Al-Shatir (1305-1375) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Ibn al-Shatir was a prolific author on scientific instruments, astronomy and mathematics; his most influential work being his Zij al-Jadid, composed after the non extant Taliq al-Arsad, presumably a report of his observations at Damascus, and the Nihayat al-Sul, the exposition of his planetary theory.
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Muhammad ibn Ahmad Al-Mizzi (1291-1349) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Mizzi lived in Damascus and worked there as a muwaqqit (time keeper) of the rabwa, and then of the Umayyad Mosque. He is the author of several works on astrolabes and quadrants. His quadrants sold for two dinars and more, his astrolabes for 10 dinars and more. In 1326/7 he constructed a quadrant which is now found in the museum of Islamic art of Cairo (No 3092).
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Ibn Khallikan (d. 1282) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Ibn Khallikan undertook work on his dictionary whilst acting as a man of the law in Damascus and then in Cairo. From 1260 to 1270 and also after 1277, he was chief Qadi of Syria with residence in Damascus, where he also taught in various colleges, chiefly at the Aminiya madrasa until his death in 1282.
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Ibn Abi Usaybia (1203-1269) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Ibn Abi Usaybia was a Muslim physician and historian of medicine. He was born in Damascus where he studied medicine before immigrating to Cairo; there he was physician at the hospital; he then became physician to the Emir Azeddin in Sarkar.
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Ibn Asakir (d. 1176) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Ibn Asakir distinguished himself with his great History of Damascus: Tarikh Dimashq. He lived in Damascus and taught tradition at the Ummayad Mosque.
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Abul Fadl Jaafar ibn Ali Al-Dimishqi (c. 1175) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Al-Dimishqi was an economist who flourished in Damascus and other places in Syria. He composed the Kitab al-Ishara ila Mahasin al-Tijara wa Matrifa al-Jayyid al-Atrad wa Radiha wa Ghushush al-Mudallisin Fiha or Book Explaining the Benefits of Commerce and the Knowledge of Good and Bad Qualities [of wares] and the Falsifications of Counterfeiters.
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