1. Contribution of Muslim Scientists
Towards Science

2. AL-KHWARIZMI
• Considered by some the inventor of
algebra
• Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician
working at the House of Wisdom in
Baghdad in the ninth century
• He also wrote on mechanical devices like
the Astrolabe and Sundial

3. • You can also thank him for the modern
numeral system, which is based on Hindu-
Arabic numbers derived from Indian
mathematics
• He also contributed to astronomy,
trigonometry and even geography
• Al-Khwarizmi accomplished most of his work
in the period between 813 and 833

4. ALHAZEN

5. • Alhazen pioneered experimental physics
and founded the modern scientific
understanding of optics
• Alhazen made significant improvements
in optics, physical science, and the
scientific method
• Alhazen's work on optics is credited with
contributing a new emphasis on
experiment

6. • His main work, Kitabal-Manazir (Book of
Optics) had little direct influence in
the Islamic Middle East
• His work on catoptrics also contains the
problem known as "Alhazen's problem”
• Risner is also the author of the name
variant "Alhazen"

7. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
(936–1013)

8. • Also known in the West as Albucasis, was
an Arab, Muslim, physician,
and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus
• He is considered the greatest
medieval surgeon to have appeared from
the Islamic World
• He devoted his entire life and genius to
the advancement of medicine as a whole
and surgery in particular

9. • His best work was the Kitab al-Tasrif
• In pharmacy and pharmacology, Abu al-
Qasim al-Zahrawi pioneered the
preparation of medicines
by sublimation and distillation
• Abu al-Qasim also described the use
of forceps in vaginal deliveries. He
introduced over 200 surgical instruments

10. Al-Jazari
(1136–1206)

11. • He was a Muslim polymath,
a scholar, inventor, mechanical
engineer, craftsman, artist,
and mathematician from Jazirat ibn Umar
• Al-Jazari laid out construction plans in
A.D. 1206 for some 50 mechanical
devices
• He was the first engineer to introduce the
crankshaft, camshaft, locks with four
bolts

12. • He also segmental gears for
communicating motion between pieces,
much of which he employed in ingenious
water-raising machines
• He also used water to drive automata like
moving peacocks, a serving girl who
poured drinks and even a band in a boat
in northern Mesopotamia

13. Abdus Salam

14. • He became the first Pakistani to receive
a Nobel Prize and also the second Muslim
to win the prize
• Salam was a science advisor to the
Government of Pakistan from 1960 to
1974
• As Science Advisor, Salam played an
integral role in Pakistan's development of
peaceful use of nuclear energy

15. • Salam's major and notable achievements
include the Pati–Salam model, magnetic
photon, vector meson, Grand Unified Theory
• Salam heavily contributed to the rise of
Pakistani physics to the Physics community in
the world
• Even until his death, Salam continued to
contribute to physics and tirelessly advocated
for the development of science in Third-World
countries