List of Arab Scientists and Scholars - Z

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• Al-Zahrawi (936, Cordoba, Spain - 1013, Cordoba, Spain) Islam's greatest medieval surgeon, wrote comprehensive medical texts combining Middle-Eastern, Indian and Greco-Roman classical teachings, shaped European surgical procedures until the Renaissance, considered the "father Of surgery", wrote Al-Tasrif, a thirty-volume collection of medical practice
• Al-Zarqali (1028,Spain - 1087,? CE) mathematician, influential astronomer, and instrument maker, contributed to the famous Tables of Toledo
• Ibn Zuhr (1091, Seville, Spain - 1161, Seville, Spain) prominent physician of the Medieval Islamic period