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Abbasid (9am Section Group 1)
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⮚ This book was needed because Al-Khwarizmi wished to help his contemporaries in their commercial dealing, land surveying, and inheritance problems
⮚ He developed, not created, geometry
His book on algebra, Hisab al-jabr wal-muqabala,
Muslim mathematician, astronomer, and geographer
Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr Al Kinani
mu'tazi theology
has a book 'Kitab Al Hayawan' which displays a clear understanding of natural selection and evolutionary processes
known for poetic prose
Jabir Ibn Hayyan
Famous alchemist
Geological theories
theories of metal formation
discovered some effects of magnetic force
Ibn Sina
erudite philosopher
physician
His most famous medical work the Canon of medicine contained over a million words about medical theories
mathmatician
more philosophical than technical interests
encyclopedist
His psychological/philosophical encyclopedia (kitab al shifa) was labelled a full and definitive remedy for the soul
astronomer
more interested in questions related
to motion, force, vacuum, infinity, and so on
Al Battani
Astronomical treaties with tables
Al Razi
Physician
Physicist
Regarded as the greatest clinician of Islam and middle age
Alchemist
Al Massudi
Combine history + scientific geography
The meadows of gold and mines of gems
Al Suffi
Wrote "The Picture Book of The Fixed Stars" (Masterpiece of Muslim Astronomy)
Astronomer
Al Kindi
Philosopher of the Arabs
Mathematics, Physics, Astrology, Medicine, Pharmacy
Wrote "De Aspectibus", a book on optics
Hunayn Ibn Ishaq
A famous Nestorian physician and one of the greatest scholars of his time.
He first worked for the Banu Musa, collecting Greek manuscripts and translating them into Arabic, then became the leading translator of medical works.