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Inventors of the medieval Islamic world

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Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, or simply al-Khwarizmi () was a mathematician active during the Islamic Golden Age, who produced Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820, he worked at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the contemporary capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate. One of the most prominent scholars of the period, his works were widely influential on later authors, both in the Islamic world and Europe.
Al-Biruni
Ibn al-Haytham
Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040)
Abu Bakr al-Razi
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Abbas Ibn Firnas
9th century astronomer and physician
al-Jazari
mathematician and engineer from Jazira, Artuqid State (1164–1206)
Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
'''Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (–1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi, Latinised as Albucasis or Abulcasis' (from Arabic Abū al-Qāsim''), was an Arab physician, surgeon and chemist from al-Andalus. He is considered one of the greatest surgeons of the Middle Ages.
Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyā al-Naqqāsh al-Zarqālī al-Tujibi (); also known as Al-Zarkali or Ibn Zarqala (1029–1100), was an Arab maker of astronomical instruments and an astrologer from the western part of the Islamic world.
Banū Mūsā
Persian brothers, mathematicians and astronomers
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf
Ottoman Syrian polymath (1526-1585)
Ǧābir Ibn-Aflāḥ
Al-Andalus mathematician and astronomer
Abu-Mahmud Khojandi
10th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician
Ibn al-Shatir
Arab astronomer and clockmaker (1304–1375)
Abu al-Salt
Andalusian Arabic polymath
Zayn al-Din al-Amidi
Islamic scholar
Ammar ibn Ali al-Mawsili
Inventor, doctor and surgeon
Hasan al-Rammah
Syrian chemist and engineer
Ibn al-Samh
Arab mathematician and astronomer
Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi
scientist and engineer
Alam al-Din al-Hanafi
Egyptian mathematician (1178-1251)
Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿīd al-Sahlī
Muslim instrument maker, and astronomer
Ali ibn Khalaf
Andalusian astronomer