Thinkers of the Medieval Period
Murasaki Shikibu
973 – 1014
Literaturequotes
Unforgettably horrible is the naked body. It really does not have the slightest charm.
Al-Maʿarri
973 – 1057
Literaturequotes
Al-Biruni
973 – 1050
Mathematicsquotes
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, known as al-Biruni was a Khwarazmian Iranic scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", Founder of Indology and the first anthropologist.
Alberuni on Pre-Islamic India's Science, Math, and Architecture
Mahmud of Ghazni
971 – 1030
Militaryquotes
Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin, usually known as Mahmud of Ghazni or Mahmud Ghaznavi, was Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, ruling from 998 to 1030. During his reign and in medieval sources, he is usually known by his honorific title Yamin al-Dawla. At the time of his death, his kingdom had been transformed into an extensive military empire, which extended from present-day northwestern Iran proper to the Punjab in the Indian subcontinent, Khwarazm in Transoxiana, and Makran.
In 930 AH Mahmud left for India from Ghazni and conquered many forts.
Avicenna
980 – 1037
Medicinequotes
Ibn Sina, commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world. He was a seminal figure of the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian rulers, and was influential to medieval European medical and Scholastic thought.
Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
Alhazen
965 – 1039
Sciencequotes
Ibn al-Haytham, Latinized as Alhazen, was a mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq. Referred to as "the father of modern optics", he made significant contributions to the principles of optics and visual perception in particular. His most influential work is titled Kitāb al-Manāẓir, written during 1011–1021, which survived in a Latin edition.
If learning the truth is the scientists goal......Then he must make himself the enemy of all that he reads.
Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani
963 – 1033
quotes
Abu 'l-Hassan Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Salmān al-Kharaqāni was one of the master Sufis of Islam. He was born in 963 of Persian parents in Khorasan in the village of Qaleh Now-e Kharaqan and died on the day of Ashura in 1033.
God's love claims him whose heart is reduced to ashes for Him.
Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi (A.J.S.)
869 – present
Religionquotes
Muhammad al-Mahdi is believed by the Twelver Shia to be the last of the Twelve Imams and the eschatological Mahdi, who will emerge in the end of time to establish peace and justice and redeem Islam.
Knowledge is ours; do not care about the unbeliever’s unbelief.
Words from October 24
"Unforgettably horrible is the naked body. It really does not have the slightest charm."
Murasaki Shikibu
973
"I have never thought there was much to be said in favor of dragging on long after all one's friends were dead."
Murasaki Shikibu
973
"Alberuni on Pre-Islamic India's Science, Math, and Architecture"
Al-Biruni
973
"In 930 AH Mahmud left for India from Ghazni and conquered many forts."
Mahmud of Ghazni
971
"When Mahmud reached Ghazni, the booty was valued at 2,000,000 Dinars, 53,000 slaves, and 350 elephants.'"
Mahmud of Ghazni
971
"Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health."
Avicenna
980