Philosophy
- EBN HENDU, ABU’L-FARAJ ʿALĪ b. Ḥosayn, also known as Ostaḏ, author of, inter alia, propaedeutic epistles on philosophy and medicine and of a gnomology of Greek wisdom, and generally renowned as a litterateur.
- Muhammad ibn Mahmud Amuli Muhammad ibn Mahmud al-Amuli was a medieval Persian physician from Amol, Iran.
He wrote an Arabic commentary on the epitome of Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine that had been made by Yusuf al-Ilaqi. Between 1335 and 1342 Amuli also composed a large and widely-read Persian encyclopedia on the classification of knowledge titled (Nafa'is al-funun fi ‘ara'is al-‘uyun).Little else is known of his life.
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī was a Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Quhi was from, an area in Tabaristan, Amol, and flourished in Baghdad in the 10th century. He is considered one of the greatest Muslim geometers.
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