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Avenzoar was born in Seville in 1094, to the notable Banu Zuhr family who were members of the Arab tribe of Iyad. [6] Starting in the early 10th century, the family produced six consecutive generations of physicians, as well as jurists, poets, viziers or courtiers, and midwives who served under the rulers of al-Andalus.
Harun Nasution was born on September 19, 1919 in North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. He was born from a family background of traditional Sunni scholars and traders. His father had been a traditional religious scholar, who despite his own immersion in Arabic and Islamic culture sent his son to a Dutch primary school.
Al-Hārith ibn Kalada (Arabic: الحارث بن كلدة; d. 13 AH/634–35) was an Arab physician and a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [1] He is said to have traveled to Gundeshapur in search of medical knowledge before the advent of Islam.
Ulama, guardians, transmitters, and interpreters of religious knowledge in Islam; Allamah, Islamic honorary title for a scholar; Mullah, Muslim clergy or mosque leader; List of da'is; List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars; List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars; List of Turkish philosophers and scientists; Islamic philosophy
Medieval Islam's receptiveness to new ideas and heritages helped it make major advances in medicine during this time, adding to earlier medical ideas and techniques, expanding the development of the health sciences and corresponding institutions, and advancing medical knowledge in areas such as surgery and understanding of the human body ...
The following is a list of Islamic scholars who are Converts to Islam. Abdalqadir as-Sufi; Bilal Philips; Frithjof Schuon; Hamza Yusuf; Hussein Ye; Ibn Yaḥyā al-Maghribī al-Samawʾal; Ivan Aguéli; Joel Hayward; John Mohammed Butt; Joseph E. B. Lumbard; Khalid Blankinship; Khalid Yasin; Malcolm X; Marmaduke Pickthall; Martin Lings; Michael ...
Farqad as-Sabakhi (d. 729), was an Armenian Christian convert to Islam. [15] Together with figures like as-Sabakhi and Rabia Basri (d. 801), Hasan began to publicly denounce the accumulation of riches by the wealthy; and it is said that he personally despised wealth to such a degree that he even "rejected a suitor for his daughter's hand who ...
Shaykh al-Islām (English: Sheikh/Chief of Islamic/Muslim Community; Arabic: شيخ الإسلام, romanized: Šayḫ al-Islām; Persian: شِیخُالاسلام, Sheykh-ol-Eslām; Urdu: شِیخُالاسلام, Sheikh-ul-Islām; Ottoman Turkish: شیخ الاسلام, Turkish: Şeyhülislam [1]) was used in the classical era as an honorific title for outstanding scholars of the ...