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Also Known As Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad al-Takrūrī al-Massūfī
Born October 26, 1556 • Songhai empire
Died April 22, 1627 (aged 70) • Timbuktu • Mali
Subjects Of Study Islam • fiqh
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
al-Suyūṭī
Egyptian author
al-Mahdī
Sudanese religious leader
Ḥasan al-Turābī
Sudanese religious scholar and lawyer
Muhammad Atef
al-Qaeda leader
Burhanuddin Rabbani
president of Afghanistan
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Consider how Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity led to a better understanding of planetary motion
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
president of Turkey
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Muʿāwiyah I
Umayyad caliph
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist