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He was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and was considered as the "father of Arabic philosophy". [6] [7] [8] He was famous for promotion of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy in the Muslim world. [9] One of his main concerns was to show the compatibility of philosophy and speculative theology. However, he would prefer the ...
Al-Maʿarri (973–1057), blind Arab philosopher, poet and writer; Al-Maqrizi (1364–1442), historian; Al-Maqdisi (946–991), medieval Arab geographer, author of Ahsan at-Taqasim fi Ma`rifat il-Aqalim (The Best Divisions for Knowledge of the Regions) Al-Maziri (1061–1141 CE), jurist in the Maliki school; Al-Mubarrad (826–898), grammarian ...
Al-Biruni; Al-Battani (Albatenius); Al-Buzjani; Al-Farabi (Alpharabius); Al-Farghani; Al-Ghazali (Algazel); Al-Idrisi; Al-Zarnuji; Al-Khwarizmi (Algoritmi); Al-Kindi ...
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The Mu'tazili scientist and philosopher al-Jahiz (c. 776–869) was the only known medieval Arab philosopher to write on topics related to natural selection. [50] [51] Al-Jahiz's ideas on the struggle for existence in the Book of Animals have been summarized as follows:
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (Arabic: فخر الدين الرازي) or Fakhruddin Razi (Persian: فخر الدين رازی) (1149 or 1150 – 1209), often known by the sobriquet Sultan of the Theologians, was an influential Iranian and Muslim polymath, scientist and one of the pioneers of inductive logic.
Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science. Vol. 2. London: Routledge. p. 642. ... The 'Arabick' Interest of the Natural Philosophers in Seventeenth-Century England.
Early Islamic philosophy or classical Islamic philosophy is a period of intense philosophical development beginning in the 2nd century AH of the Islamic calendar (early 9th century CE) and lasting until the 6th century AH (late 12th century CE).