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List of pre-modern Arab scientists and scholars

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Arab scholars at an Abbasid library in Baghdad. Maqamat of al-Hariri Illustration, 1237.

Arab scientists and scholars from the Muslim World, including Al-Andalus (Spain), who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age, include the following. The list consists primarily of scholars during the Middle Ages.

Both the Arabic and Latin names are given. The following Arabic naming articles are not used for indexing:

  • Al - the
  • Ibn, bin, banu - son of
  • abu, abi - father of, the one with

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  • Ja'far al-Sadiq (702–765), theologian and alchemist
  • Jabir ibn Aflah (1100–1150), astronomer and mathematician who invented torquetum
  • Jabir ibn Hayyan (died c. 806–816), alchemist and polymath, pioneer of organic chemistry; may also have been Persian
  • Jābir ibn Zayd (8th century), theologian and jurist
  • Al-Jawaliqi (1074–1144), grammarian and philologist
  • Al-Jahiz (776–869), historian, biologist and author
  • Al-Jayyānī (989–1079), mathematician and author
  • Al-Jawbari (fl. 1222), alchemist and writer
  • Al-Jabali (d. 976), physician and mathematician from Al-Andalus
  • Al-Jubba'i (d. 915), Mu'tazili theologian and philosopher
  • Al-Jazari (1136–1206), inventor, engineer, artisan
  • Al-Jarmi (d. 840), grammarian of Arabic Language
  • Ibn al-Jazzar (10th century), influential 10th-century physician and author
  • Ibn al-Jawzi (1116–1201), heresiographer, historian, hagiographer and philologist
  • Ibn Juzayy (d. 1357), historian, scholar and writer of poetry
  • Ibn Juljul (c. 944–c. 994), physician and pharmacologist
  • Ibn Jazla (11th century), physician and author of influential treatise on regimen
  • Ibn Jubayr (1145–1217), geographer, traveller and poet, known for his detailed travel journals

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  • Waddah al-Yaman (d. 709), poet, famous for his erotic and romantic poems
  • Wasil ibn Ata (700–748), theologian and founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought
  • Al-Warraq (889–994), scholar and critic of religions
  • Al-Wafa'i (1408–1471), astronomer
  • Ibn al-Wafid (997–1074), pharmacologist and physician
  • Ibn al-Wardi (1292–1342), historian
  • Ibn Wahb (743–813 CE), jurist of Maliki school
  • Ibn Wahshiyya (10th century), Arab alchemist and agriculturalist

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