Mathematicians

  • Banu Musa (sons of Musa ibn Shakir) (ninth century)
  • al-Hajjaj ibn Matar (c. 800)
  • Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (c. 780-c. 850)
  • Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Johannitius) (808-873) `
  • Abd al-Hamid ibn Turk (c. 850)
  • Ahmad ibn `Abdullah al-Marwazi Habas al-Hasib (c. 850)
  • Thabit ibn Qurra (836 -901)
  • al-Fadl al-Nayrizi (c. 880)
  • Abu Kamil ibn Aslam (c. 850-930)
  • Qusta ibn Luka (d. 912)
  • Abu `Abdallah Mohammad ibn Jabir al-Battani (Albatenius) (c. 858-929)
  • Abu Nasr al-Farabi (Alpharabius) (c. 878-c. 950)
  • Ibrahim ibn Sinan (909-946)
  • Abu Sahl al-Kuhi (c. 950)
  • Abu l'Hasan al-Uqlidisi (c. 952)
  • `Abd al-`Aziz al-Qabisi (c. 950)
  • Muhammad Abu l'Wafa (Albuzjani) (940-998)
  • Abd al-Jalil al-Sijzi (c. 970)
  • Abu `Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (c. 965-1039)
  • Abu l-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (973-1055)
  • Abu Bakr al-Karaji (al Karkhi) (c. 1000)
  • Abu `Abdallah al-Hasan ibn al-Baghdadi (c. 1000)
  • Kushyar ibn Labban (c. 1000)
  • Maslama al-Majriti (c. 1000)
  • Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Iraq (d. 1030)
  • Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (c. 1025)
  • `Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini (c. 1150)
  • Abu-l-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd (Averroes) (1126-1198)
  • Ibn Yahya al-Samaw'al (1125-1180)
  • Sharaf al-Din at-Tusi (c. 1175)
  • Nasir al-Din at-Tusi (1201-1274)
  • Muhammad al-Khalili (c. 1250)
  • ibn al-Banna (1256-1321)
  • Ghiyath al-Din al-Kashi (d. 1429)
  • Ulugh Beg (1394-1449)

Bibliography

  • J. L. Berggren. Episodes in the mathematics of Medieval Islam. Springer-Verlag, New-York, 1986.
  • Butzer, P. L., and D. Lohmann. Science in Western and Eastern civilization in Carolingian times. Birkhauser, Boston, 1993.
  • Ali Abdullah al-Daffa. The Muslim contribution to mathematics. Croom Helm, London, 1977.
  • Ali Abdullah al-Daffa and J.J. Stroyls. Studies in the exact sciences in medieval Isalm. Wiley, New York, 1984.
  • Ibn Lablan, Kushyar. Principles of Hindu Reckoning. Univ. Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1966.
  • Kennedy, E. S. (Edward Stewart) Studies in the Islamic exact sciences. American University of Beirut, Beirut, 1983.
  • Nasr, Seyyed Hossein Science and civilization in Islam. New American Library, New York, 1968.
  • O'Leary, De Lacy Evans. How Greek science passed to the Arabs. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949.
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