Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
ARA 102 F21 - 9:30 am Class - Group 5 - Islamic Science - Islamic Science…
ARA 102 F21 - 9:30 am Class - Group 5 - Islamic Science - Islamic Science in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib
Fatima Al-Majritiya
She was highlighted in the 2009 calendar “Women
Astronomers Who Made History” with her most famous work “Corrections of Fatima”
-
-
She also did calculations of the true positions of the Sun, the Moon and the planets.
Abu Al-Qasim Al Zahrawi
-
-
He is from Zahra, Cardoba. A Muslim surgeon and chemist
He is most famous for Al-Tasrif - medical encyclopedia in 30 sections containing surgical descriptions,
and interesting methods of preparing drugs
He performed surgical procedures in obstetrics as well as
in the treatment of the eyes, ears, and teeth
Ibn Rushd Abu Al Walid
Muslim philosopher, jurist and medical scientists and One of the greatest Muslim polymaths of all time
• He attained the highest knowledge in philosophy, fiqh, medicine, astronomy, physics, mathematics, psychology, and more
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, which
he felt was one of the most serious problems in Muslim society
Maslamah Al-Majriti
-
-
He edited, adapted, and and improved the astronomical tables of al-
.Khawarizimi
-
one of the greatest Andalusian astronomers, he was also a mathematician and a famed chemist
Abu Ishaq Al-Zarqali,
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
-
-
Most famously, he edited the celebrated Toledan Tables” - planetary tables of observations and calculations that were made by him and Jewish astronomers in Toledo
Nur Al Din Al bitruji
-
His Latin name, Alpetragius, has been immortalized
by being given to a crater on the Moon
He wrote the Kitab Al lHay’ah, which was translated into Hebrew and Latin
-
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
-
Which not only referenced 150 previous Arab authors and 20 Greek authors, but listed 1,400 foods, plants, and drugs
An Andalusian botanist, scientist, pharmacist, and physician from Malaga.
His second major work is Al Kitab Al Mughani Fi Adwiah Al Mufrada, an encyclopedia of Islamic medicine, incorporating knowledge of plants into the treatment of various ailments of the head, ear and eye.
-
-
Al Hasan Al Marakushi
-
As an astronomer he described more than 240 stars and was the author of (Comprehensive Collection of Principles and Objectives in the Science of Timekeeping) a very large compendium on spherical astronomy and astronomical instruments.
-
-