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medievalIbn al-Haytham
... Muslim physicist and mathematician known as Alhazen in the West. His Kitab al-Manazir (Book of Optics) revolutionized the u...
medievalIbn Sina
Persian physician and philosopher known in the West as Avicenna. His al-Qanun fi at-Tibb (Canon of Medicine) wa...
medievalKhalil ibn Ishaq
...ecame the standard text for Maliki scholarship in North and West Africa for centuries.
modernAbdullah ibn Fudi
Brother of Uthman dan Fodio, a major West African scholar, poet, and military commander of the Sokoto...
modernAbdal Hakim Murad
...e Cambridge Muslim College, and one of the most influential Western Muslim intellectuals.
medievalas-Sanusi
...l-Barahin,' the most widely studied creed text in North and West Africa.
modernHamza Yusuf
...dely regarded as one of the most influential Muslims in the Western world.
ottomanSalih al-Fulani
West African Fulani scholar who settled in Medina and authored '...