List of Muslim geographers

List of Muslim geographers

The following is a non-exhaustive list of Muslim geographers.

*Al-Khwarizmi (Algoritmi, 780-850)
*Al-Kindi (Alkindus, 801-873)
*Ya'qubi (d. 897)
*Ibn Khordadbeh (820-912)
*Al-Dinawari (828-898)
*Ahmed ibn Sahl al-Balkhi (850-934)
*Hamdani (893-945)
*Ali al-Masudi (896-956)
*Ibn al-Faqih (10th c.)
*Ahmad ibn Fadlan (10th c.)
*Ahmad ibn Rustah (10th c.)
*Al-Muqaddasi (945-1000)
*Ibn Hawqal (d. after 977)
*Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen, 965-1039)
*Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī (973-1048)
*Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980-1037)
*Abu Said Gardezi (d. 1061)
*Abu Abdullah al-Bakri (1014-1094)
*Muhammad al-Idrisi (Dreses, 1100-1165)
*Ibn Rushd (Averroes, 1126-1198)
*Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217)
*Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179-1229)
*Abu al-Fida (Abulfeda, 1273-1331)
*Hamdollah Mostowfi (1281-1349)
*Ibn Battuta (1304-1370s)
*Ahmad Bin Majid (b. 1432)
*Mahmud al-Kashgari (1005-1102)
*Piri Reis (1465–1554)
*Amin Razi (16th c.)
*Mohammad Reza Hafeznia (b. 1955)
*Ghazi Falah (b. 20th c.)

ee also

*Islamic geography
*List of Arab scientists and scholars


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