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THE GOLDEN AGE OF ISLAM

1. Muhammad bin Musa Al-Khawarizmi (780-850 A.D) From his most important book, Al-jabr wa'l muqabalah , comes the word algebra (Al-jabr).

2. Al Kindi (801-873 A.D)

Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers, and is unanimously hailed as the "father of Islamic or Arabic philosoph for his synthesis, adaptation and promotion of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy in the Muslim world (geometry and astronomy).

3. Al Batani (858-929 A. D) He introduced the use of sines in mathematical calculations, computed a table of cotangents, and formulated certain propositions in spherical trigonometry.

4. Abu Bakar Muhammad bin Zakaria al-Razi/AlRazikimiawan/Rhazes (864-930 A.D)

One Muslim scholar who has been able to create a soap formula

5. Al Farabi (870-950 A.D)


Inventor of music and musical instruments. One of the important contributions of Farabi was to make the study of logic easier by dividing it into two categories, Takhayyol (idea) and Thobout (proof).

6. Ibnu Sina/Avicenna (980-1037 A.D) "Father of Modern Medicine", His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard m edical text at many medieval .

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