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His major work is the Durrat al-taj li-ghurratt al-Dubaj (Pearly Crown) which is an Encyclopedic work on philosophy including philosophical views on natural sciences, theology, logic, public affairs, ethnics, mysticism, astronomy, mathematics, arithmetic and music. [ 60 ] Ibn Sabin. Andalusia. (Spain) 1236–1269.
Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen; / æ l ˈ h æ z ən /; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c. 965 – c. 1040) was a medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq.
Islamic philosophy refers to philosophy produced in an Islamic society. As it is not necessarily concerned with religious issues, nor exclusively produced by Muslims, [ 3 ] many scholars prefer the term "Arabic philosophy." [ 4 ] Islamic philosophy is a generic term that can be defined and used in different ways.
Early Islamic philosophy or classical Islamic philosophy is a period of intense philosophical development beginning in the 2nd century AH of the Islamic calendar (early 9th century CE) and lasting until the 6th century AH (late 12th century CE). The period is known as the Islamic Golden Age, and the achievements of this period had a crucial ...
Al-Kindi (d. 873)—considered to be among the first Arab philosophers, he combined the ideology of Aristotle and Plato; Maslama al-Majriti (950–1007)—Arab mathematician and astronomer who translated Greek texts; Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809–873)—Arab (Nestorian Christian) scholar and philosopher who was placed in charge of the House of Wisdom ...
Postage stamp of the USSR, issued on the 1100th anniversary of the birth of Al-Farabi (1975). Abu Nasr Muhammad al-Farabi (Arabic: أبو نصر محمد الفارابي, romanized: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī; c. 870 [1] [H] – 14 December 950–12 January 951), [2] known in the Latin West as Alpharabius, [3] [I] was an early Islamic philosopher and music theorist. [4]
t. e. Moses ben Maimon[ a ] (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (/ maɪˈmɒnɪdiːz / my-MON-ih-deez) [ b ] and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (Hebrew: רמב״ם), [ c ] was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
Alchemy in the medieval Islamic world refers to both traditional alchemy and early practical chemistry (the early chemical investigation of nature in general) by Muslim scholars in the medieval Islamic world. The word alchemy was derived from the Arabic word كيمياء or kīmiyāʾ[1][2] and may ultimately derive from the ancient Egyptian ...