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tabi_tabiiAbdullah ibn al-Mubarak

A polymath scholar praised as 'the scholar of the East,' combining mas...

classicalAl-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

Arab polymath, teacher of Sibawaih, and inventor of Arabic prosody (ilm a...

classicalJabir ibn Hayyan

Muslim polymath known as the father of chemistry (al-kimiya). Introduced ex...

classicalIbn Qutaybah

A polymath and leading authority on Arabic literature, Quranic science...

medievalAl-Biruni

Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scholars in Islamic history. Author...

medievalIbn Sina

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

modernMuhammad al-Amin ash-Shinqiti

... tafsir that explains the Quran by the Quran, a Mauritanian polymath.

modernMuhammad al-Hasan Walad ad-Dadaw

Mauritanian polymath scholar known for his encyclopedic knowledge across all Isl...

medievalat-Taftazani

Central Asian polymath, author of 'Sharh al-Aqaid an-Nasafiyyah' on Maturidi theol...

medievalal-Jurjani

Theologian and polymath, author of 'Sharh al-Mawaqif' and 'Kitab at-Ta'rifat,' an e...