List of Shi'a Muslims - Scientists, Mathematicians and Philosophers

Scientists, Mathematicians and Philosophers

• Jābir ibn Hayyān father of chemistry
• Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali -was a close companion of Imam Ali and grammarian. he was the first to place dots on the Arabic Words and the first to write on Arabic linguistics.
• Abu Zayd al-Balkhi Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist.
• Al-Kindi - Iraqi and Arab Polymath
• Abu Ali Sina - (actual madhab disputed) Persian polymath; also known as Avicenna to the West
• Al-Farabi -Muslim polymath and one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of Persia and the Islamic world in his time. He was also a cosmologist, logician, musician, psychologist and sociologist.
• Abu Nasr Mansur - known for his work with the spherical sine law
• Muhammad al-Idrisi Islamic geographer, cartographer, Egyptologist descendant of the Idrisid dynasty.
• al-Biruni - polymath; regarded as the father of geodesy, the founder of Indology, the "first anthropologist" and "one of the greatest scientists of all times"
• Alhazen -Iraqi polymath; regarded as father of optics for his Book of Optics, as well as the founder of experimental psychology and experimental physics
• Khalil ibn Ahmad -Iraqi Arab philologist and linguist.
• Sibawayh -linguist.
• Ahmed ibn Yusuf -Iraqi Arab mathematician.
• Abū Sahl al-Qūhī -Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
• Ibn Miskawayh - philosopher and scientist; described the process of evolution in the tenth century
• Ferdowsi - poet, author of Shahnameh the national epic of Iran
• Abu Mikhnaf -Iraqi Arab Muslim historian.
• Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi -Iraqi Arab Muslim historian.
• Ya'qubi -Iraqi Muslim historian and geographer.
• Ahmad ibn A'zham -Iraqi Muslim historian.
• Al-Masudi -Iraqi Arab historian and geographer known as the "Herodotus of the Arabs.
• Ibn al-Nadim -Iraqi historian.
• Abū Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdānī Arab Muslim geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer
• Ibn Wahshiyya Nabataean Arab writer, alchemist, agriculturalist, Egyptologist and historian
• Abolfadl Harawi -Iranian Muslim astronomer.
• Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi -Iranian Muslim astronomer, mathematician.
• Al-Birjandi -Iranian Muslim astronomer.
• Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin Persian Muslim astronomer and mathematician.
• Ibn Hawqal Arab writer, geographer, and chronicler
• Qadi al-Nu'man Isma'ili jurist and the official historian of the Fatimid caliphs.
• Ibn Yunus Egyptian Muslim astronomer and mathematician.
• Ali ibn Ridwan Egyptian Muslim physician, astrologer and astronomerphilosopher.
• Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani Persianphilosopher.
• Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī - astronomer, mathematician.
• Nasir al-Din al-Tusi - astronomer, biologist, chemist, mathematician, Early Islamic philosopher, physician and marja; early pioneer of biological evolution.
• Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi -Arab Muslim astronomer, mathematician, architect and engineer.
• Ibn al-Tiqtaqa -Iraqi Arab Muslim historian.
• Baha' ad-Din al-`Amili - Lebanese Muslim scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician.
• Iskandar Beg Munshi -court historian of the Safavid emperor Shah Abbas I.
• Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi -chief secretary, historian, biographer, advisor, strategist.
• Mulla Sadra - philosopher, founder of existentialism and transcendent theosophy
• Mir Damad -Iranian philosopher
• Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah electrical and electronics research engineer, mathematician and inventor.
• Rammal Rammal
• Allama Rasheed Turabi - Hyderabad, India later migrated to Pakistan theologian, scholar, philosopher
• Kazem Behbehani -Kuwaiti immunologist and retired professor. He has done research on tropical diseases before he became International Health Advocat at WHO.
• Lotfi Asker Zadeh Iranian computer scientist; founder of Fuzzy Mathematics and fuzzy set theory.
• Wissam S. al-Hashimi Iraqi geologist.
• Jim Al-Khalili Iraqi theoretical nuclear physicist, academic, author and broadcaster.
• Husain Mohammad Jafri
• Samad Rizvi
• Athar Ali
• Pervez Hoodbhoy
• Agha Shahi
• Razi Abedi
• Nayyar Ali Zaidi
• Naveed Zaidi
• Kalbe Razi Naqvi