the Islamic Golden Age

Modern copy of al-Idrisi's 1154 Tabula Rogeriana, upside-down, north at top

Science In The Medieval Islamic World

Science In The Medieval Islamic World Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids, the Buyids in Persia, the Abbasid Caliphate and beyond, spanning the period roughly between...

Avicenna

Avicenna

Who Is Avicenna? Avicenna (also Ibn Sīnā or Abu Ali Sina; ابن سینا‎; c. 980 – June 1037) was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. He has been described as the father of early modern medicine. Of the 450 works he is known...