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ARA 102 S21 - Islamic Science - 9:30 am Class - Group 4 (Al-Andalus…
ARA 102 S21 - Islamic Science - 9:30 am Class - Group 4 (Al-Andalus Scientists)
FATIMA AL-MAJRITIYA
Her most famous work is “Corrections of Fatima”
Together with her father she edited and corrected “The Astronomical Tables of al-Khwarizmi”
Spanish Muslim born in Madrid
She did calculations of the true positions of the Sun, the Moon and the planets.
ABBAS IBN FIRNAS
He is considered to be the first human to fly with the help of a pair of wings built by silk, wood and real feathers
He realized that slow landing is achieved via the collaborative work between tail and wings, a conclusion he reached after decades of studies of bird flight and their landings
Andalusia Muslim inventor, physician, chemist, engineer, musician, and poet
His flying machine diagrams went on to become the cornerstones of aviation engineering in the late 20th century
IBN RUSHD / AVERROES
Andalusian Muslim philosopher, jurist and medical scientists
He attained the highest knowledge in philosophy, Fiqh, medicine, astronomy, physics, mathematics, psychology, and more
He wrote one of his most important books is in philosophy Tahafut Al-Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence)
The first writer in any language to complain about discrimination against women
He reposted to Al-Ghazzali’s Tahafut al Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers)
AL-ZAHRAWI / ABULCASIS
Known as the ‘Father of surgery’
Arab Andalusian Muslim surgeon and chemist
He is most famous for Al-Tasrif
Introduced animal gut for internal wound stitching
He performed surgical procedures in obstetrics as well as in the treatment of the eyes, ears, and teeth
Al Majriti, Maslamah Abu Al Qasim Ibn Ahmed
from Madrid, flourished in Cordoba; one of the greatest Andalusian astronomers, he was also a mathematician and a famed chemist.
He edited, adapted, and improved the astronomical tables of al-Khwarizmi , and helped convert Persian dates to Arab-Islamic ones.
More famously, he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, as well as a commentary on Ptolemy’s Planisphaerium.
The commentary was an improved translation of Ptolemy’s Almagest, and a book on the commercial applications of arithmetic (al-mu amalat).
Al-Zarqali, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim Ibn Yahya Al Naqqash
Was a great astronomer from Cordoba, probably the best observer of his time.
He produced an improved astrolabe, his description of which was translated into Latin, Hebrew, and other languages.
He was the first to clearly prove the motion of the solar apogee with respect to the stars.
Most famously, he edited the celebrated “Toledan Tables”, planetary tables of observations and calculations that were made by him and other Muslim and Jewish astronomers in Toledo.
These tables were translated into Latin and became very popular. He also produced an introduction to trigonometry
Al Bitruji, Nur Al Din Ibn Ishaq
Was an important astronomer, whose name probably refers to Los Pedroches, a place near Cordoba; his Latin name, Alpetragius, has been immortalized by being given to a crater on the Moon.
He wrote the Kitab -al- Hay’ah, which was translated into Hebrew and Latin; his main program was a critique of the Ptolemaic model.
His results were much less satisfactory than the various Ptolemaic models, but his radical critique of Ptolemy later was influential in the east and the west.
Ibn al Baytar, Diya al Din Abu Muhammed Abdulla Ibn Ahmed Al Malaqi
His second major work is al-Kitab al- mughni fi al-adwiya al-mufrada , an encyclopedia of Islamic medicine, incorporating knowledge of plants into the treatment of various ailments of the head, ear, and eye.
He was greatly influential on later physicians and pharmacists.
His most important contribution is Al-Kitab Al-Jami` li-Mufradat al-Adwiya wa al- Aghdhiya, which not only referenced 150 previous Arab authors and 20 Greek authors, but listed 1,400 plants, foods, and drugs.
Was an Andalusian botanist, pharmacist, physician, and scientist, from Malaga.
Ibn Al Banna Al Marrakushi, Abu al Abbas ahmed ibn Muhammed al Azdi
Was a Moroccan mathematician and astronomer, immortalized by having a crater on the Moon named after him.
He wrote between 50 and 74 treatises, covering algebra, astronomy, linguistics, logic, and other topics.
His main works included: Talkh is mal al-h is ab (A Summary of Arithmetical Operations), which dealt with fractions, sums of squares and cubes, etc.
Tanbi h al- albab (A Notice to the Minds), which covered calculations regarding the Islamic laws of inheritance, legal taxes in the case of delayed payments, determination of the Asr prayer time, etc.; and al- hij ab.
Lifting the Veil, which addressed topics such as the computation of square roots of numbers, the theory of continued fractions, etc.
Al Hasan al Marrakushi, Abu Ali
Was a Moroccan astronomer and mathematician, particularly noteworthy in the field of trigonometry, he authored the Kitab al-Kotu` al-Makhrutia (Conical Sections).
As an astronomer, he described more than 240 stars and was the author of Jami
al- Mabadi’ wal-Ghaya t fi
Ilm al- Miqat (Comprehensive Collection of Principles and Objectives in the Science of Timekeeping), a very large compendium on spherical astronomy and astronomical instruments (sundials, astrolabes).
