List of Arab Scientists and Scholars - M

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• Mostafa El-Sayed
• Al-Masudi ( ?, Baghdad, Iraq - 957, Cairo, Egypt) historian, geographer and philosopher, traveled to Spain, Russia, India, Sri Lanka and China, spent his last years in Syria and Egypt
• Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti, (d. 1008 or 1007 CE), was an Arab Muslim scholar and astronomer in Spain
• Al-Ma'arri (December 26, 973 - May 10 or May 21, 1057, Ma'arra (المعرة) in Syria) blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer
• Al-Mawardi, known in Latin as Alboacen, (972, Basra, Iraq - 1058, Iraq) judge, diplomat, and author of influential works on governance and ethics
• Ma Yize (ca. 910, ? - 1005, China) astronomer and astrologist, worked as the chief official of the astronomical observatory of the Song dynasty
• Muhammad Al-Muqaddasi (946 CE, Jerusalem, Palestine - ) medieval Arab geographer, author of Ahsan at-Taqasim fi Ma`rifat il-Aqalim (The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions)