Huge advancements were made in Medieval Islamic Spain by Al-Zahrawi in the fields of surgery and medicine, as well as by Ibn Al-Baitar in herbal medicine and pharmacology that greatly influenced later generations of European scientists. Al-Zahrawi’s thirty-vol...
Did you know that Ibn al-Nafis, the twelfth-century Muslim scientist, was the first person who accurately described the pulmonary circulation of the blood?
Watch this episode of Nameables to find out more about Ibn al-Nafis and his extraordinary life!
Al-Khazini was a twelfth-century mathematician, astronomer and inventor from Merv in present-day Turkmenistan. Al-Khazini wrote his Book of the Balance of Wisdom, an encyclopedia on scales and water-balances in which he describes an amazing invention of his: t...
Did you know that advancements made by Medieval Muslim physicians such as Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Avicenna and Ibn-Nafis revolutionized the field of medicine? The discoveries and observations of these physicians were way ahead of the ancient Greeks and ...
12th century Muslim scientist, inventor, engineer and artist Ismail Al-Jazari ranks among history’s greatest geniuses for his many of inventions, which represent significant advances in engineering and robotics. In his book The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious M...
The amazing story of Ahmed Zewail, the Muslim Nobel Prize winner, who is known as the Father of Femtochemistry!
Ahmed Hassan Zewail was a Muslim Egyptian-American chemist, known as the "Father of Femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemi...