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Articles of the author Faraidhi FSTC
The forgotten scientists of Palestine
A FACT that should be remembered when we talk about the different areas of knowledge in Muslim heritage – and which should be emphasized in these troubled days marked by the tragic situation in the Middle East – is that until the middle of the 20th (...)

05 - 02 - 2010
Latinized names of Muslim scholars
Nayrizi, Abu Al-Abbas Al-Fadhl Bin Hatim A MATHEMATICIAN from Nayriz, a town near Shiraz. He flourished between 875 and 940 CE. Little is known of his life but we do know that he dedicated some of his works to Caliph Al-Mu'tadid (892-902 CE). So (...)

05 - 06 - 2009
Ametus filius Iosephi
Arabic name: Ahmed Bin Yusuf Bin Ibrahim Al-Misri Bin Ad-Daya AHMED Bin Yusuf was born in Baghdad and moved to Damascus in 839, then to Cairo, where he died in 912 CE. He was a mathematician, like his father Yusuf Bin Ibrahim. Among his works (...)

11 - 05 - 2009
Abulfeda
Fida, Isma'il Ibn Kathir ‘Imad Al-Din A SYRIAN historian and scholar (1273-1331), he was born in Basra. The most famous of his works is the Tafsir (explanation) of the Qur'an, known as Tafsir Ibn Kathir. Among his other great works are: Al-Bidaya (...)

04 - 05 - 2009
Serapion, Serapionis
Arabic name: Yuhanna Ibn Sarabiyun A PHYSICIAN and geographer of the 9th century CE. His medical work was well-known in the European Latin world after the translation of some of his books. He wrote a Small and a Great Compendium, both in Syriac. (...)

17 - 04 - 2009
Geber
Arabic name: Jabir Ibn Hayyan, Abu Musa A PROMINENT Muslim polymath (721–815 CE), who excelled in many scientific branches but is widely known for his special contributions to chemistry, which he practiced in its ancient sense, that is by mixing (...)

10 - 04 - 2009
Averroes
Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad. AN Andalusian physician, polymath, a master of Islamic law, astronomy, medicine, physics, and science, Averroes was born in Cordoba, and died in Marrakech (1126-1198 CE). Famous by his work in medicine – a medical (...)

30 - 03 - 2009
Alfraganus
Farghani, Abul-'Abbas Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Kathir One of the famous astronomers in the 9th century. Born in 805 at Ferghana (present Uzbekistan), he worked in Baghdad, where he was connected to the group of scholars led by the brothers Banu Musa. (...)

13 - 03 - 2009
Contribution of Palestinian scholars to science
A FACT that should be remembered when we talk about the different areas of knowledge in Muslim heritage – and which should be emphasized in these troubled days marked by the tragic situation in the Middle East – is that until the middle of the 20th (...)

09 - 03 - 2009
Hale, Haly Abbas
Majusi A FAMOUS Persian physician. Born in Ahwaz, he flourished under the Buwayhid Sultan Adhud Al-Dawla. He died in 994. He is considered one of the three greatest physicians of the Eastern Caliphate of his time. Among his important books is a (...)

27 - 02 - 2009
Dreses, the geographer
Idrissi, Abu Abdullah Muhammad Al-Charif Al-Idrissi HE was a Moroccan cartographer, geographer and traveller (1100-1165) born in Sebta, Northern Morocco under the Almoravids. He died in his city after a long stay in Andalus and Sicily, where he (...)

13 - 02 - 2009
Geber, the chemist
Arabic name: Jabir Ibn Hayyan, Abu Musa A PROMINENT Muslim polymath (c. 721–c. 815), who excelled in many scientific branches but his contributions in chemistry are unmatched. He was also an astronomer, engineer, pharmacist and physician. Ibn (...)

06 - 02 - 2009
Machometus Bagdedinus
HE was an Arab mathematician (c. 980–1037) from Baghdad who is best known for his treatise “Al-Takmila Fi'l-Hisab.” It contains results in number theory, and comments on works by Al-Khwarizmi which are now lost. (His several works were translated (...)

02 - 02 - 2009
Machometus Bagdedinus
Baghdadi HE was an Arab mathematician (980–1037 CE) from Baghdad who is best known for his treatise Al-Takmila Fi'l-Hisab. It contains results in number theory, and comments on works by Al-Khwarizmi which are now lost. Influence of some of his (...)

16 - 01 - 2009
Trium fratum, the engineers
Arabic name: Banu Musa Ibn Shakir Al-Munajjim THE Banu Musa brothers (“Sons of Musa Ibn Shakir”) were three scholars at Baghdad, active in the House of Wisdom: Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa (800-873), who specialized in astronomy, engineering, (...)

05 - 01 - 2009
Ametus Filius Losephi
Arabic name: Ahmed Ibn Yusuf Ibn Ibrahim Al-Misri Ibn Ad-Daya Ahmed Ibn Yusuf was born in Baghdad and moved to Damascus in 839, then to Cairo, where he died in 912CE. He was a mathematician, like his father Yusuf Ibn Ibrahim. Among his works (...)

02 - 01 - 2009
Laying the foundations of camera
THE camera is one of the most powerful instruments ever invented. Still photographs and moving pictures have provided man the ability to record and display images of every kind - from the first few cells of a human embryo to galaxies, billions of (...)

29 - 12 - 2008
Avenzoar, the physician
Arabic name: Ibn Zuhr, Abu Marwan ‘Abd Al-Malik Ibn Abi Al-'Ala' Ibn Zuhr Famous physician of Andalus and one of the greatest medical clinicians of the western caliphate. Born in Seville in 1091 CE, he studied in C?rdoba. After a brief stay in (...)

17 - 11 - 2008
Algizar, the physician
Jazzar, Abu Ja'far Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Abi Khalid Al-Qayrawani Tunisian physician, born around 878CE in Kairouan, where he died in 980CE. Ibn al-Jazzar hailed from a family of physicians. He studied with the famous Jewish philosopher and (...)

07 - 11 - 2008
Alghorismus
SOMETIMES he is referred as Algoritmi Arabic name: Al-Khwarizmi, Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Musa A Muslim mathematician, astronomer, and geographer, who wrote on Hindu-Arabic numerals and was among the first to use zero as a place holder in (...)

31 - 10 - 2008
Albucasis, the surgeon
Qasim Khalaf Ibn al-‘Abbas Al-Zahrawi AN Andalusian physician and surgeon (936 - 1013). He is considered as the father of modern surgery, and as Islam's greatest surgeon, whose comprehensive medical texts, combining Islamic medicine and ancient (...)

27 - 10 - 2008
Albategnius
SOMETIMES he is referred as Albategni or Albatenius Arabic name: Al-Battani, Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Jabir Ibn Sinan Al-Harrani as-Sabi. An astronomer and mathematician, born in Harran (now in Turkey) around 853 CE. He died in 929 at Qasr (...)

24 - 10 - 2008
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