Female Muslim Scientists

 

Women Surgeons

Rufaidah Aslamiyyah was an expert in medicine and surgery. She used to tend to the sick and wounded in the battlefields. According to Ibn Sa’d, her tent was equipped with equipment for surgery and first aid. When Sa’d ibn Mu’adh (radiAllahu anhu) was injured in the Battle of the Trenches, the Prophet (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) transferred him to her tent for medical care. 

Other women experts in medicine and surgery were Umm Muta’, Umm Kabashah, Hamnah bint Jahsh, Mu’adhah, Laila, Umaimah, Umm Zaid, Umm ‘Atiyyah, and Umm Sulaim (radiAllahu anhuma) 

Rise And Fall Of Muslim Scientists

The rise of the Muslims to the zenith of civilisation in a period of four centuries was based on Al-Islam’s emphasis on learning. This is obvious when one takes a look at the Quran and the traditions of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) which are filled with references to learning, education, observation, and the use of reason. The very first verse of the Qur’an revealed to the Prophet on the night of power (Laylathul Qadr) in the month of Ramadhan in 611 CE reads: Read More…

 

 

Ibn Battuta – The Great Traveller

Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta, also known as Shams ad – Din, was born at Tangier, Morocco, on the 24th February 1304 C.E. (703 Hijra). He left Tangier on Thursday, 14th June, 1325 C.E. (2nd Rajab 725 A.H.), when he was twenty one years of age. His travels lasted for about thirty years, after which he returned to Fez, Morocco at the court of Sultan Abu ‘Inan and dictated accounts of his journeys to Ibn Juzay. These are known as the famous Travels (Rihala) of Ibn Battuta. He died at Fez in 1369 C.E.

Ibn Battuta was the only medieval traveller who is known to have visited the lands of every Muslim ruler of his time. He also travelled in Ceylon (present Sri Lanka), China and Byzantium and South Russia. The mere extent of his travels is estimated at no less than 75,000 miles, a figure which is not likely to have been surpassed before the age of steam.

Travels
In the course of his first journey, Ibn Battuta travelled through Algiers, Tunis, Egypt, Palestine and Syria to Makkah. After visiting Iraq, Shiraz and Mesopotamia he once more returned to perform the Hajj at Makkah and remained there for three years. Then travelling to Jeddah he went to Yemen by sea, visited Aden and set sail for Mombasa, East Africa. After going up to Kulwa he came back to Oman and repeated pilgrimage to Makkah in 1332 C.E. via Hormuz, Siraf, Bahrain and Yamama. Subsequently he set out with the purpose of going to India, but on reaching Jeddah, he appears to have changed his mind (due perhaps to the unavailability of a ship bound for India), and revisited Cairo, Palestine and Syria, thereafter arriving at Aleya (Asia Minor) by sea and travelled across Anatolia and Sinope. He then crossed the Black Sea and after long wanderings he reached Constantinople through Southern Ukraine.

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Other Muslim Scientists:

• Jabir Ibn Haiyan (803 C.E.)
• Mohammad BinMusa alKhawarizmi (840 C.E.)
• Yaqub Ibn Ishaq al-Kindi (800 C.E.)
• Thabit Ibn Qurra (836 C.E.)
• Ali Ibn Rabban al-Tabari (838 C.E.)
• Abu Abdullah al-Battani (858 C.E.)
• Al-Farghani (860 C.E.)
• Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (864 C.E.)
• Abu al-Nasr al-Farabi (870 C.E.)
• Abul Hasan Ali al-Masu’di (957 C.E.)
• Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (936 C.E.)
• Abul Wafa Muhammad al-Buzjani (940 C.E.)
• Abu Ali Hasan Ibn al-Haitham (965 C.E.)
• Abu Raihan al-Biruni (973 C.E.)
• Ibn Sina (980 C.E.)
• Omar al-Khayyam (1044 C.E.)
• Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058 C.E.)
• Abu Marwan Ibn Zuhr (1091 C.E.)
• Al-Idrisi (1099 C.E.)
• Ibn Rushd (1128 C.E.)
• Ibn al-Baitar (1248 C.E.)
• Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201 C.E.)
• Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 C.E.)
• Ibn al-Nafis (1213 C.E.)
• Ibn Khaldun (1332 C.E.)
• Ibn Sina – Doctor Of Doctors
• El Zahrawi – Father Of Surgery