List of Muslim scientists
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Science in the Islamic world has played an important role in the history of science. There have also been some notable Muslim scientists in the present day. The following is an incomplete list of notable Muslim scientists.
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- Further information: Islamic astronomy
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Yaqūb ibn Tāriq
- Ibrahim al-Fazari
- Muhammad al-Fazari
- Mashallah
- Naubakht
- Al-Khwarizmi, also a mathematician
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar)
- Al-Farghani
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa)
- Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit)
- Al-Majriti
- Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (Albatenius)
- Al-Farabi (Abunaser)
- Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi
- Abu Sa'id Gorgani
- Kushyar ibn Labban
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin
- Al-Mahani
- Al-Marwazi
- Al-Nayrizi
- Al-Saghani
- Al-Farghani
- Abu Nasr Mansur
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (Kuhi)
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi
- Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī
- Ibn Yunus
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna
- Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel)
- Omar Khayyám
- Al-Khazini
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Ibn Tufail (Abubacer)
- Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi (Alpetragius)
- Averroes
- Al-Jazari
- Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī
- Anvari
- Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
- Ibn al-Shatir
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī
- Ulugh Beg, also a mathematician
- Taqi al-Din, Ottoman astronomer
- Ahmad Nahavandi
- Haly Abenragel
- Ghallia Kaouk
- Abolfadl Harawi
- Kerim Kerimov, a founder of Soviet space program and a lead architect behind first human spaceflight (Vostok 1) and space stations (Salyut and Mir)
- Abdul Kalam
- Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Muhammed Faris
- Abdul Ahad Mohmand
- Talgat Musabayev
- Anousheh Ansari
- Amir Ansari
- Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
- Further information: Alchemy (Islam)
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Jabir Ibn Hayyan (Geber), father of chemistry
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman)
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus)
- Al-Majriti
- Al-Razi (Rhazes)
- Ibn Miskawayh
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna
- Al-Khazini
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Hasan al-Rammah
- Ibn Khaldun
- Sake Dean Mahomet
- Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
- Ahmed H. Zewail, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1999
- Ali Eftekhari
- Lotfi Asker Zadeh, Iranian computer scientist; founder of Fuzzy Mathematics, fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory
- Jawed Karim, Bangladeshi American software engineer; lead architect of PayPal and co-founder of YouTube
- Pierre Omidyar, Iranian American entrepeneur; founder of eBay
- Al-Masudi, the "Herodotus of the Arabs"
- Muhammad al-Idrisi, also a cartographer
- Ahmad ibn Fadlan
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, father of geodesy, considered the first geologist and "first anthropologist"
- Avicenna
- Averroes
- Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Khaldun
- Piri Reis
- Evliya Çelebi
- Further information: Islamic mathematics: Biographies
- Al-Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Matar
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (Algorismi) - father of algebra and algorithms
- Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī
- 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk
- Hunayn ibn Ishaq
- Al-Kindi (Alkindus)
- Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar)
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa)
- Al-Mahani
- Ahmed ibn Yusuf
- Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit)
- Al-Majriti
- Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (Albatenius)
- Al-Farabi (Abunaser)
- Abū Kāmil Shujā ibn Aslam
- Al-Nayrizi
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin
- Brethren of Purity
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
- Al-Saghani
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi
- Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī
- Ibn Sahl
- Al-Sijzi
- Ibn Yunus
- Abu Nasr Mansur
- Kushyar ibn Labban
- Al-Karaji
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen/Alhazen)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna
- Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi
- Al-Nasawi
- Al-Jayyani
- Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel)
- Al-Mu'taman ibn Hud
- Omar Khayyám
- Al-Khazini
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Al-Ghazali (Algazel)
- Al-Samawal
- Averroes
- Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī
- Ibn Mun`im
- Al-Marrakushi
- Ibn al-Banna'
- Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, 13th century Persian mathematician and philosopher
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
- Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī
- Al-Khalili
- Ibn al-Shatir
- Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī
- Ulugh Beg
- Taqi al-Din
- Muhammad Baqir Yazdi
- Ibn Baso
- Sibt al-Mardini
- Cumrun Vafa
- Further information: Islamic medicine
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calid)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman)
- Al-Jahiz
- Al-Farabi (Abunaser)
- Al-Razi (Rhazes)
- Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi
- Ibn Miskawayh
- Abul Hasan al-Tabari - physician
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - physician
- Ibn Al-Jazzar
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) - father of modern surgery
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) - father of modern medicine, also a philosopher
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Ibn Tufail (Abubacer)
- Averroes
- Ibn al-Baitar
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Nasir al-Din Tusi
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī
- Mansur ibn Ilyas
- Saghir Akhtar - pharmacist
- Toffy Musivand
- Samuel Rahbar
- Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
- Jafar al-Sadiq, 8th century
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa), 9th century
- Abbas Ibn Firnas (Armen Firman), 9th century
- Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit), 9th century
- Al-Saghani, 10th century
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (Kuhi), 10th century
- Ibn Sahl, 10th century
- Ibn Yunus, 10th century
- Al-Karaji, 10th century
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), 11th century Iraqi scientist, father of optics, pioneer of scientific method and experimental physics, considered the "first scientist"
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, 11th century, pioneer of experimental mechanics
- Avicenna, 11th century
- Al-Khazini, 12th century
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), 12th century
- Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Nathanel), 12th century
- Averroes, 12th century Andalusian mathematician, philosopher and medical expert
- Al-Jazari, 13th century civil engineer, father of robotics, father of modern engineering
- Nasir al-Din Tusi, 13th century
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, 13th century
- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, 13th century
- Hasan al-Rammah, 13th century
- Ibn al-Shatir, 14th century
- Taqi al-Din, 16th century
- Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, 17th century
- Lagari Hasan Çelebi, 17th century
- Sake Dean Mahomet, 18th century
- Tipu Sultan, 18th century Indian mechanician
- Fazlur Khan, 20th century Bangladeshi mechanician
- Mahmoud Hessaby, 20th century Iranian physicist
- Ali Javan, 20th century Iranian physicist
- Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, 20th century Indonesian aerospace engineer and president
- Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistani nuclear physicist
- Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist; Nobel Prize in Physics 1977
- Abdul Kalam, Indian nuclear physicist
- Mehran Kardar, Iranian theoretical physicist
- Cumrun Vafa, Iranian mathematical physicist
- Nima Arkani-Hamed, American-born Iranian physicist
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, considered the "first anthropologist" and father of Indology
- Ibn Khaldun, father of cultural history, demography, historiography, philosophy of history, sociology and social sciences
- Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani social scientist; pioneer of microcredit
- Mahbub ul Haq, Pakistani economist; developer of Human Development Index
- Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist; father of microcredit and microfinance