There was a time Islamic intellectual culture had some of the greatest critical thinkers, philosophers, inventors known to man. Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā 854 CE – 925 CE. Famed doctor, chemist, & philosopher. First person to describe smallpox & measles as separate diseases.

Avicenna 980 CE – 1037 CE
Persian Polymath that is often regarded as the single greatest thinker of the Islamic Golden age. Author of 450 books, one of which was a standard medical text until 1650. Wrote on Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology, Religion, Logic, Mathematics, & Physics.

Fakhr al-Din al-Razi 1149 CE – 1209 CE. Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian. Proposed several possible models of the cosmos including a multiverse model. 7. Kâtip Çelebi 1609 CE – 1657 CE
Ottoman historian & geographer. Wrote a bibliographic encyclopedia with 14,500 entries.

Al-Farabi, could speak many different languages: Arabic, Persian, Turkic, Syriac, and Greek. In the hands of Al-Farabi, science and art indeed exercised their true nature, that is to unite mankind regardless of ethnicity, belief, and nation.

The list goes on! The purpose of this thread is to generate enough curiosity so that you can start reading about them.
One does not need to be a student or teacher of philosophy to read the works of these great philosophers. You don’t need the likes of #tariqjameel #tariqjamil.