List of Muslim Scientists - Economists and Social Scientists

Economists and Social Scientists

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  • Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man (699-767), Islamic jurisprudence scholar
  • Abu Yusuf (731-798), Islamic jurisprudence scholar
  • Al-Saghani (d. 990), one of the earliest historians of science
  • Shams al-Mo'ali Abol-hasan Ghaboos ibn Wushmgir (Qabus) (d. 1012), economist
  • Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (973-1048), considered the "first anthropologist" and father of Indology
  • Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) (980–1037), economist
  • Ibn Miskawayh (b. 1030), economist
  • Al-Ghazali (Algazel) (1058–1111), economist
  • Al-Mawardi (1075–1158), economist
  • Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (Tusi) (1201–1274), economist
  • Ibn al-Nafis (1213–1288), sociologist
  • Ibn Taymiyyah (1263–1328), economist
  • Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), forerunner of social sciences such as demography, cultural history, historiography, philosophy of history, sociology and economics
  • Al-Maqrizi (1364–1442), economist
  • Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani social scientist; pioneer of microcredit
  • Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize winner Bangladeshi economist; pioneer of microfinance
  • Shah Abdul Hannan, Pioneer of Islamic Banking in South Asia
  • Mahbub ul Haq, Pakistani economist; developer of Human Development Index and founder of Human Development Report

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