Tag: Muslim Scientist

30 December 2023

Dr. Aziz Sancar: Illuminating DNA Repair and the Muslim Scientist

His dedication to rigorous scientific research and his commitment to his faith served as an inspiring example of how science and religion can coexist and even complement each other.

02 September 2018

Abbas ibn Firnas: Father of the Flying Machine in more than a thousand years ago

The first man who have flown like a bird on sky in his home-made aircraft during the Golden Age of Islam, 1000 years earlier than the Wright Brothers.

22 July 2018

Al-Urdi, Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematician and architect

He is known for being the first of the Maragheh astronomers to develop a non-Ptolemaic model of planetary motion. The “Urdi lemma” he developed was later used in the heliocentric Copernican model of Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century.

29 April 2018

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, the father of surgery

He was: the first physician to describe an Abdominal (ectopic) pregnancy, the first physician to identify the hereditary nature of haemophilia, the first to illustrate the various cannulae, the first to treat a wart with an iron tube and caustic metal as a …

15 April 2018

Professor Sayyed Mahmoud Hessabi, the sole Iranian student of Albert Einstein

Dr Hessabi was a Polymath, with five bachelor’s degrees in literature, civil engineering, mathematics, electrical engineering and mining engineering and got phd in physics …

01 April 2018

Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance

This is essential to understand the place of science in the world of Islam and its fundamental importance to the development of modern science in the Western world.

04 March 2018

Engineer Day in Iran is celebrated to respect Khawaja Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Persian scholar

Nasir al-Din Tusi the great Persian scholar, (1201 – 1274), saved the lives of many other scientists and artists, accumulated a library of 400000 volumes, and built an astronomical observatory ….

07 January 2018

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, Persian New Muslim physician and psychologist

On the Quran he said: “When I was a Christian I used to say, as did an uncle of mine who was one of the learned and eloquent men, that eloquence is not one of the signs of prophethood because it is common to all the peoples; but when I discarded (blind) imitation and (old) customs and gave up adhering to (mere) habit and training and reflected upon the meanings of the Qur’an I came to know that what the followers of the Qur’an claimed for it was true.