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Muhyi Al-Din ibn Abd Al-Zâhir (1223-1292) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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One of the historians of Mamluk Egypt was Muhyi Al-Din Ibn Abd Al-Zâhir (1223-92) who wrote a contemporary biography of Baybars (ruled 1260-1277). He also wrote biographies of his successors, Qalawun (ruled 1279-90) and his son Al-Ashraf (1290-3).
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Ibn Abi Al-Hawafar (13th century) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Ibn Abi Al-Hawafar wrote a treatise on ophthalmology, Natijat al-Fikar`alaj Amrad al Bassar (The Thoughtful Conclusions on the Treatment of the Diseases of Visions).
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Abd Al-Latif Al-Baghdadi (1162-1213) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Abd Al-Latif Al-Baghdadi was born in Baghdad where he studied philosophy and philology and later chemistry and medicine. During his career he taught medicine and philosophy at Damascus, Aleppo and Cairo. Of the 166 works he is credited with, only one is in print, Compendium Memorabilium Aegypti, which is based on his studies and experiences in Egypt, where he visited at the request of Salah Al-Din.
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Ibn Mammati Abul Makarim Assad ibn Khatir ibn Mammati (d. 1209) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Ibn Mammati wrote an account of the Egyptian government under the Ayyubid Sultan Salah Al-Din, the Kitâb Qawanin al-Dawawin (Statutes of the Councils of State).
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Abd Al-Rahman ibn Nasr ibn Abdallah ibn Muhammad Al-Nabarawi Al-Shafi’i (12th century) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Abd al-Rahman al-Shafi'i wrote a handbook for the use of Police Officers in charge of markets enabling them for instance to verify weights and measures and to test the genuineness of wares.
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Abul Hasan Ali ibn Ridwan ibn Ali ibn Jafar Al-Misrî (998-1061) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Abul Hasan Al-Misrî, was a physician and author of many medical writings of which the most popular was his commentary on Galen's Ars Parva which was translated by Gherardo Cremonese.
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Abu Kamil Al-Hâsib Al-Misrî (850 - 930) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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He was a mathematician who perfected al-Khwarizmi's work on algebra and whose mathematics included a number of subjects such as determination and construction of both roots of quadratic equations, multiplication and division of algebraic quantities, addition and subtraction of radicals, and the study of the pentagon and decagon (algebraic treatment).
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Ahmed ibn Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Al-Daya Al-Misrî (d. 912) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 26 July, 2007 |
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Ahmed al-Misrî set up some of the earliest foundations of modern mathematics and in medieval Europe he was known as Ametus Filius Joseph.
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Rashid Al-Din ibn Essury (13th century) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Rashid Al-Din was a well-recognised botanist and his passion and knowledge of the subject places him amongst the greatest botanists.
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Muwaffaq Al-Din Yaqub Ben Saklan (d. 1229) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 20 July, 2007 |
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Muwaffaq Al-Din Yaqub Ben Saklan was a Christian doctor of Jerusalem (d. 1229). He was an Oriental Christian who served as a manager of the hospital of Jerusalem under Muaddam the Ayyubid ruler. Muaddam took Yaqub into his service and showered him with gifts and honours.
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