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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 September 2024. Muslim scholar and Shia imam (c. 702–765) Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq Sixth imam of Twelver Shi'ism and Isma'ilism جَعْفَر ٱلصَّادِق 6th Shia imam In office 732–765 Preceded by Muhammad al-Baqir Succeeded by Musa al-Kazim (Twelverism) Isma'il al-Mubarak (Isma'ilism) Abd ...
The Tusi couple, a mathematical device invented by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi to model the not perfectly circular motions of the planets. Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids and the Buyids in ...
The Jaʿfarī school, [a] also known as the Jafarite school, Jaʿfarī fiqh (Arabic: الفقه الجعفري) or Ja'fari jurisprudence, is a prominent school of jurisprudence (fiqh) within Twelver and Ismaili (including Nizari) [1] Shia Islam, named after the sixth Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq. [2] In Iran, Jaʽfari jurisprudence is enshrined in the ...
Al-Ghazali was born in c. 1058 in Tus, then part of the Seljuk Empire. [50] He was a Muslim scholar, law specialist, rationalist, and spiritualist of Persian descent. [51][52] He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (now part of Iran), [50] not long after Seljuks entered Baghdad and ended Shia Buyid Amir al-umaras.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 September 2024. Islamic alchemist and polymath For other people known as Jabir, see Jabir. Jābir ibn Ḥayyān Islamic alchemist 15th-century depiction of Jabir Died c. 806−816 Era Islamic Golden Age Region Kufa (Iraq) unknown Language Arabic Main interests Alchemy and chemistry, magic, Shi'ite ...
Ibn al-Nafis. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥazm al-Qarashī (Arabic: علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي ), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (Arabic: ابن النفيس), was an Arab polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies ...
t. e. Kitab al-Jafr (Arabic: كِتاب ٱلْجَفْر, romanized: Kitāb al-Jafr) is a mystical book which, in the Shia belief, contains esoteric teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad for his cousin and son-in-law Ali, who is recognized as the fourth Rashidun caliph (r. 656–661) and the first Shia Imam. In the Twelver Shia belief, the ...
Al-Khwarizmi. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[note 1] (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Khwarazm -born polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820 CE, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of ...