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Muslim Heroes

Al Battani (Albategnius)

Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Jabir ibn Sinan ar-Raqqi al-Harrani as-Sabi al-Batani. Latinized as Albategnius, Albategni or Albatenius was an Arab… Read More

Women’s Contribution to Classical Islamic Civilization – Science, Medicine and Politics

While there are numerous works on the role of Muslim women in jurisprudence (fiqh) and literature, there are also studies… Read More

Kushyar ibn Labban

Abul-Hasan Kūshyar ibn Labbān ibn Bashahri Gilani (971–1029), also known as Kūshyar Gilani was a mathematician, geographer, and astronomer from… Read More

Ibn Yunus

Ibn Yunus's full name is Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Sadafi. As the name indicates, his… Read More

Abu al-Wafa

Abu'l-Wafa was brought up during the period that a new dynasty was being established which would rule over Iran. The… Read More

Al-Masudi – Herodotus of the Arabs

The historian and geographer, Abul Hasan Ali Ibn Hussain Ibn Ali Al Masudi (895-957 CE) was a scion of an… Read More

Al Jazari – The Father of Robotics

Al Jazari (1136–1206) was a Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia,… Read More

The Muslim Contribution to Optics

There is still a controversy as to whether color therapy works within the realm of vibration or within the world… Read More

Al-Zahrawi – The Pioneer of Modern Surgery

It has often been stated on this website that the Muslim period of Spain’s history (also known as al-Andalus) was… Read More

Al Ghazali – One of the great Jurist, Theologian and Mystic of the 12th Century

Abu Hamed Mohammad ibn Mohammad al-Ghazzali (1058–1111 C.E.) (Persian: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد الغزالی), known as Al-Ghazali or Algazel… Read More

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