List of Muslim Scientists - Geographers and Earth Scientists

Geographers and Earth Scientists

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  • Al-Masudi, the "Herodotus of the Arabs", and pioneer of historical geography
  • Al-Kindi, pioneer of environmental science
  • Ibn Al-Jazzar
  • Al-Tamimi
  • Al-Masihi
  • Ali ibn Ridwan
  • Muhammad al-Idrisi, also a cartographer
  • Ahmad ibn Fadlan
  • Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, father of geodesy, considered the first geologist and "first anthropologist"
  • Avicenna
  • Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
  • Averroes
  • Ibn al-Nafis
  • Ibn Jubayr
  • Ibn Battuta
  • Ibn Khaldun
  • Piri Reis
  • Evliya Çelebi

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