Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
The physician and philosopher whose book "The Canon of Medicine" remained a core reference in European universities for centuries.
Great figures of Islamic civilization in hadith, medicine, mathematics, and history
The physician and philosopher whose book "The Canon of Medicine" remained a core reference in European universities for centuries.
The great hadith scholar of Islam and author of Sahih al-Bukhari, the most authentic book after the Quran.
The founder of modern sociology, author of the "Muqaddimah," which analyzed the laws behind the rise and fall of civilizations.
The father of algebra whose name gave rise to the word "algorithm," still used in computer science today.
Muhammad Amin Ibn Abidin, Damascene Hanafi jurist, author of «Radd al-Muhtar 'ala al-Durr al-Mukhtar», the most important later Hanafi legal
Uthman ibn Muhammad Fodio, Fulani scholar and reformist preacher of West Africa, who led a major religious revival movement that culminated
Ahmad al-Tijani, Algerian scholar and Sufi, founder of the Tijaniyya order, one of the most widely followed Sufi orders in West Africa and N
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a Hanbali scholar from Najd, called for renewing the doctrine of monotheism and combating religious innovation a
Ahmad ibn Abd al-Rahim, known as Shah Waliullah al-Dihlawi, a major Indian reformer who sought to reconcile the legal schools with hadith an
Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, an encyclopedic Damascene scholar, Sufi, poet, and traveler who left over two hundred works, recording his journeys
Abd al-Rauf al-Singkili, prominent scholar of Aceh, the first to produce a complete Quranic exegesis translation into the Malay language, an
Mustafa ibn Abdullah, known as Katip Celebi or Haji Khalifa, an Ottoman polymath spanning bibliography, history, and geography, author of «K