Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari
Taj al-Din Ahmad Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari, Maliki jurist and Shadhili Sufi master, author of «Al-Hikam al-'Ata'iyya», one of the most cele
Great figures of Islamic civilization in hadith, medicine, mathematics, and history
Taj al-Din Ahmad Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari, Maliki jurist and Shadhili Sufi master, author of «Al-Hikam al-'Ata'iyya», one of the most cele
Jalal al-Din Muhammad al-Balkhi al-Rumi, jurist, poet, and towering Sufi master, author of the «Masnavi-ye Ma'navi», one of the greatest wor
Zayn al-Din Ibn al-Wardi, historian, geographer, and poet from Ma'arrat al-Nu'man, author of «Tarikh Ibn al-Wardi» and the cosmography «Khar
Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Dhahabi, master hadith scholar and foremost historian of Islam, author of «Siyar A'lam al-Nubala'» and «Tarikh al-I
Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn Khallikan, chief Shafi'i judge of Damascus and author of «Wafayat al-A'yan», the most celebrated biographical diction
Khwarazmian scholar of language and Qur'anic exegesis, author of the 'al-Kashshaf' commentary, celebrated for its precise rhetorical analysi
Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet who advanced algebra and the classification of cubic equations, and led the reform of the Jalali
Regarded as the father of modern surgery, he devised numerous surgical instruments and detailed intricate operations in his medical encyclop
Encyclopedic Andalusian jurist who turned from politics to scholarship, authoring the major compendium of the Zahiri legal school and works
Founder of the Maturidi school of theology, a middle path close to Ash'arism that spread widely across Transoxania and later Anatolia.
Controversial Persian mystic who traveled widely preaching; his ecstatic utterances sparked juristic controversy that ended in his execution
Arab astronomer and mathematician who refined calculations of the solar year and planetary motion; his astronomical tables were used in Euro