Friday, May 26, 2017

Ibn Al-Thahabi- Arab scholar who may have written the first known alphabetical encyclopedia of medicine.

Masawaiyh- Assyrian Nestorian Christian physician who translated some Greek works in to Syriac, and wrote the first systematic treatise on opthamology.

Salmawaih ibn Bunan- Like Hunayn Ibn Shaq, he was an Assyrian Christian translator of Galen.

Ibn al-Tilmīdh- Noted Christian Syrian pharmacologist; perhaps the most notable besides Al-Baitar or Ibn Sina. Mastered Persian, Greek, Syriac, and Arabic.

Ali ibn Isa al-Kahhal- noted tenth or 11th century opthamologist. In his work, we find the first time in literature that an anaesthetic is prescribed. First to discover the symptoms of VKH syndrome.

According to Wikipedia: (Ali) Ibn Isa is also thought to be the first to describe temporal arteritis, although Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828–1913) is erroneously credited with this.[5]


Gerard of Cremona- Translator of Arabic works in to Latin. He worked in Toledo, and was thus one of the more notable "Toledo translators".


Constantine the African- 11th century scholar. Also translated some Arabic books in to latin.

I think many Persian scholars (such as Rhazes) had been written or translated in to Arabic; thus I think he was able to translate Rhazes too.

Isaac Israeli ben Solomon- Arab Jew physician and philosopher in the 9th or tenth century.

Sa'ad al-Dawla- 13th century Persian Jew physician and vizier.


Samuel ibn Naghrillah- was a talmudic grammarian, philologist, soldier, politician, patron of the arts, and Hebrew who lived in Iberia at the time of Moorish rule according to wikipedia.

Qusta ibn Luqa- A Syrian melkite who helped translate some Greek works in to Arabic.


Ali ibn Ridwan- Arab physician and astronomer who described Supernova now known as SN 1006.

Also a commentator on Galen's Ars Parva.


Ibrahim ibn Sinan- tenth century mathemetician and grandson of Thabit Ibn Qurraa.

MORE ARAB SCHOLARS:
Ibn Hawqal- Arab writer, geographer, and chronicler in the 10th century.




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Paul Erdős- Hungarian mathematician ( March 1913 – 20 September 1996)

Sameera Moussa (1917-1952) - Egyptian nuclear physicist.

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