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    • ABU AL-HASAN AL-MAWARDI
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    • ABU ISHAQ IBRAHIM IBN YAHYA
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    • AL-IDRISI (Dreses)
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    • Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraq
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    • Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Muadh Al-Jayyani
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    • Abul-Hasan Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Yunus
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    • Marmaduke Pickthall
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    • Abu Abdallah Yaish ibn Ibrahim Al-Umawi
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    • Abul Hasan ibn Ali al Qalasadi
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    • Muhammad Iqbal
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    • El Zahrawi (Albucasis)
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    • Seyyed Hossein Nasr
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    • Rene Guenon (Abd al-Wahid Yahya)
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    • Muhyi ldin al-Maghribi
    • ribi (About 1220 in Spain- about 1283 in Maragha, Iran) Muhyi al-din al-Maghribi was an eminent astronomer who was born in Spain, but who first worked in Damascus in Syria. His life seems to have been greatly affected by t...
    • Thabit Ibn Qurra
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    • Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Sabbah Al-Kindi
    • ndi (about 801 in Kufah, Iraq- 873 in Baghdad, Iraq) Al-Kindi was born and brought up in Kufah, which was a centre for Arab culture and learning in the 9th century. This was certainly the right place for al-Kind...
    • Ibrahim ibn Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra
    • rra (908 in Baghdad- 946 in Baghdad) Ibrahim ibn Sinan was a grandson of Thabit ibn Qurra and studied geometry and in particular tangents (1) to circles. He also studied the apparent motion of the Sun and the geometry of...
    • Frithjof Schuon
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    • hers (about 800 in Baghdad) There were three brothers Jafar Muhammad ibn Musa ibn Shakir , Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Shakir and al-Hasan ibn Musa ibn Shakir . They are almost indistinguishable but we do know that although th...
    • Al-Marrakushi ibn Al-Banna
    • nna (29 Dec 1256 in Marrakesh, Morocco- 1321 in Marrakesh) Ibn al-Banna is also known as Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Azdi. It is a little unclear whether al-Banna was born in the city of Marrakesh or whe...
    • Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr Al-Khujandi
    • ndi  (About 940 in Khudzhand, Tajikistan - 1000) Few facts about al-Khujandi's life are known. What little we know comes through his writings which have survived and also some comments made by Nasir al-din al-Tusi . F...
    • Ahmed ibn Yusuf al-Misri
    • sri (835 in Baghdad - 912 in Cairo, Egypt) Ahmed ibn Yusuf's father Yusuf ibn Ibrahim was also a mathematician. Yusuf ibn Ibrahim lived inBaghdad but moved to Damascus in about 839. After a little while he moved again, takin...
    • Al-Ishbili, Abu Muhammad Jabir ibn Aflah
    • lah (About 1100 in possibly Seville- about 1160) Jabir ibn Aflah is often known by the Latinised form of his name, namely Geber. Although not he was not in the first rank of Arabic mathematicians, he is important in the d...
    • Abu Zayd Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi
    • adi (808 in al-Hirah - 873 in Baghdad) Hunayn ibn Ishaq is most famous as a translator. He was not a mathematician but trained in medicine and made his original contributions to the subject. Hunayn's father was Ishaq, a ...
    • Abu al Hasan Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Uqlidisi
    • isi  (About 920 in possibly Damascus - about 980 in possibly Damascus) Al-Uqlidisi is a mathematician who is only known to us through two manuscripts on arithmetic, Kitab al-fusul fi al-hisab al-Hindi and Kitab al-h...
    • Abu Abdullah al-Battani
    • NI (868--929 A.D.) Abu Abdallah Muhammad Ibn Jabir Ibn Sinan al-Battani al-Harrani was born around 858 A.D. in Harran, called Carrhae in earlier times by the Romans, and according to one account, in Battan, a Stat...
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