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Ibn Al-Awwam (12th century) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Ibn Al-Awwam was a Hispano-Muslim agriculturist who flourished in Seville at about the end of the twelfth century. He wrote a treatise on agriculture, Kitâb al-Filaha, which is the most important Muslim work as well as the most important mediaeval work on the subject.
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Abu’l Khair (12th century) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Abu'l Khair was a botanist who is the author of a book on farming: Kitâb al-Filaha. In this treatise, Abu'l Khair proposes four procedures to collect rain water, and other artificially obtained waters.
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Ibn Bassal (1085 C.E.) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Ibn Bassal joined the court of Al-Mutamid for whom he created a new royal garden.
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Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Khair ibn Umar ibn Khalifa Al-Ishbilî (1108/9-1179) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Al-Ishbilî is a Hispano-Muslim scholar who compiled a bibliography (Fihrist) containing more than 1400 titles of books composed by Spanish Muslims on every subject; a bibliography which is very precious.
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Ibrahim ibn Said Al-Wazzân (1085 C.E.) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Ibrahim ibn Said Al-Wazzân is known to have been a prominent instrument maker working in Valencia and Toledo.
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Said Al-Andalusî (1029-1070) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Said Al-Andalusî (Al-Tulaytulî) (of Toledo) has left us important information on this subject in his Tabaqat al-Umam (The Classification of Nations) which has been studied by illustrious historians.
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Muhammad ibn Al-Safar (1029 C.E.) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Muhammad ibn Al-Safar, who in 1029 made an astrolabe which, centuries after, was found in the Sprenger collection. It was later transferred to the Staatsbibliothek of Berlin and can today be located in the Westdeutsche Bibliothek of Marburg (still in Germany).
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Al-Badî Al-Astrulabî (d. 1140) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Al-Badî al-Asturlabî was a Muslim astronomer and director of astronomical observations in the palace of the Seljuk Sultan of Iraq.
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Al-Baghdadî (980-1037) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Al-Baghdadi was one of the greatest theologians of his age and many works are attributed to him. He also wrote two mathematical works.
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Al-Ghazalî (1058-1111) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 27 July, 2007 |
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Al-Ghazalî is known in Europe as Algazel, and was one of the most illustrious Muslim scholars. His Maqasid al-Falasifah (The Aims of the Philosophers), translated into Latin in the 12th century, became very influential amongst scholastic Christian theologians.
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