List of scientists in the medieval Islamic world

Islamic scientific achievements encompassed a wide range of subject areas, especially medicine, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture as well as physics, economics, engineering and optics.

Muslim scientists who have contributed significantly to science and civilization in the Islamic Golden Age (i.e. from the 8th century to the 14th century) include:

Astronomers

Al-Khwarizmi

Psychiatrists

Chemists and alchemists

Economists and social scientists

Bust of Ibn Khaldun in the entrance of the Kasbah of Bejaia, Algeria

Geographers and earth scientists

1878 illustration by Léon Benett showing Ibn Battuta (centre) and his guide (left) in Egypt

Mathematicians

Averroes
Ibn al-Haytham

Philosophers

Physicists and engineers

Avicenna

See also

Notes

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