Tuesday, February 24, 2009

.::THE SCHOLARS::.




During the Islamic Golden Age, around the middle of the 8th century to the middle of the 13th century, the contribution of scholars and engineers of the Islamic world has emerged. They did contribute to the arts, literature, philosophy, sciences, and technology. They did their own inventions and innovations. It is the main reason behind the achievement blossomed during the Islamic Civilization. Therefore, our group has include this video in under this title. This video is taken from www.youtube.com. We hope, this video can act as part to make people realize the essential of scholars especially those who are ignorance towards Muslim.




1. Ibn al-Haytham (Al-Hazen)


Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) : Muslim scientist
Name: Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham
Title: Ibn al-Haytham and Alhacen

*Ibn al-Haythem made significant
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mprovements in optics, physical science, and the scientific method which influenced the development of science for over five hundred years after his death.
*Ibn al-Haytham's work on optics is credited with contributing a new emphasis on experiment. His influence on physical sciences in general, and on optics in particular, has been held in high esteem and, in fact, ushered in a new era in optical research, both in theory and practice.
*The scientific method is considered to be so fundamental to modern science.

2.
Abū Rayhān Muhammad ibn Ahmad Bīrunī

Title: Abu-Rayhan Biruni
Birth: 15 September 973 AD
Death:13 December 1048 AD in Afghanistan

*A Persian polymath scholar of the 11th century.

*He was a scientist and physicist, an anthropologist and comparative sociologist an astronomer and chemist, a critic of alchemy and astrology, an encyclopedias and historian, a geographer and traveler, a geologist, a mathematician, a pharmacy it and psychologist, an Islamic philosopher and theologian, and a scholar and teacher.

3. Muhammad ibn Musa Khwarizmi


*His contributions not only made a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well.

*The word algebra is derived from al-jabber, one of the two operations used to solve quadratic equations as described in his many of his book
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4. Ibn al-Nafis AL-KINDI

Full name: Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī
Birth: c. 801, Kufa, Abbasid Caliphate
Death: c. 873, Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate.

*works on psychopathalogy and psychological treatment and circultory system.