25 results for “polymath”
...born near Bukhara in 370 AH, was the foremost physician and polymath of the Abbasid era. His al-Qanun fi al-Tibb (Canon of Medic...
Abu Uthman al-Jahiz, the prolific Basran polymath, died. His Kitab al-Hayawan is a pioneering work of zoology...
Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, the great polymath, historian, and Quran commentator, died in Baghdad. His Taf...
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, the great polymath and author of the massive Quranic commentary Mafatih al-Gha...
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti, one of the most prolific scholars in Islamic history with over 500 works, died in Cairo. His al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Quran is the most compr
A polymath scholar praised as 'the scholar of the East,' combining mas...
Arab polymath, teacher of Sibawaih, and inventor of Arabic prosody (ilm a...
Muslim polymath known as the father of chemistry (al-kimiya). Introduced ex...
A polymath and leading authority on Arabic literature, Quranic science...
Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scholars in Islamic history. Author...
Persian physician and philosopher known in the West as Avicenna. His al-Qanun fi at-Tibb (Canon of Medicine) was the standard medical textbook in Europe and the
... tafsir that explains the Quran by the Quran, a Mauritanian polymath.
Mauritanian polymath scholar known for his encyclopedic knowledge across all Isl...
Central Asian polymath, author of 'Sharh al-Aqaid an-Nasafiyyah' on Maturidi theol...
Theologian and polymath, author of 'Sharh al-Mawaqif' and 'Kitab at-Ta'rifat,' an e...
Brilliant Ash'ari theologian and polymath, author of Mafatih al-Ghayb (the Great Commentary), one of ...
Central Asian polymath who wrote authoritative commentaries on kalam, usul al-fiqh...
The greatest prose stylist of classical Arabic; polymath who wrote on theology, zoology, rhetoric, and social histor...
Ottoman polymath and bibliographer; his Kashf al-Zunun is the most comprehen...
Persian polymath, astronomer, and mathematician who served the Mongols. Foun...
Egyptian polymath who authored over 500 works spanning all Islamic sciences.
The life and achievements of al-Biruni in astronomy, mathematics, geography, and comparative religion, including his accurate measurement of the earth's circumf
The scholar of Cordoba who authored works on theology, jurisprudence, comparative religion, and love, and founded the Zahiri school's most systematic articulati
The 9th-century Andalusian polymath who made one of the earliest known attempts at controlled f...