• Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi (Persian: ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist...
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    medicine, linking changes in mental state to changes in the body. Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850-934) was a Muslim psychologist and physician during the Islamic...
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  • astrologer, astronomer and Islamic philosopher Abu-Shakur Balkhi (915-?), Persian poet Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850-934), Persian geographer, mathematician,...
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  • notable including Al-Khwārizmī, Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (founder of the "Balkhi school"), Al-Masudi, Abu Rayhan Biruni and Muhammad al-Idrisi. Islamic geography...
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    Ibn al-'Awwam, and geography enabled Abu Zayd al-Balkhi to make accurate maps. Islamic mathematicians such as Al-Khwarizmi, Avicenna and Jamshīd al-Kāshī...
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  • bin Muḥammad bin Khaldūn Al-Hadrami (1332–1406), Arab polymath Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (b. 850), Persian Muslim polymath Abu Zayd Hassan, 9 c. merchant known...
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    Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-'Abbās al-Zahrāwī al-Ansari (Arabic: أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي;‎ 936–1013), popularly known as al-Zahrawi (الزهراوي)...
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    artists survive. As he was a follower of Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, this style of map-making is often referred to as the "Balkhī school", or the "Classical School"...
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  • described in a lost book by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (dating from ca. 920) and mentioned in works by some of his followers (Ibn Hawqal, Al-Istakhri, Hudud ul-'alam)...
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    borders. In the 10th century, the Persian historian and polymath Abu Zayd al-Balkhi described Bashkirs as a people divided into two groups: one inhabiting...
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    Zakariyya' al-Qazwini (full name: Abū Yaḥyā Zakariyyāʾ ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī, Arabic: أبو يحيى زكرياء بن محمد بن محمود القزويني), also known...
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    support, Zayd accommodated some majority views. For instance, he did not condemn the first two caliphs: Abu Bakr and Umar. Such views, however, cost Zayd part...
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    about Muhammad. June 27 – Ibrahim II, emir of the Aghlabids (d. 902) Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Muslim mathematician (d. 934) Adelaide, queen of the West Frankish...
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  • cosmonaut Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Tajik polymath Rumi, scholar and poet Avicenna, Tajik polymath, physician and philosopher Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Tajik astrologer...
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  • in the preface of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm. He belonged to the school known as the "atlas of Islam", inaugurated by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (d. 934) and developed by...
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    Zaydism (Arabic: الزَّيْدِيَّة, romanized: az-Zaydiyya) is one of the three main branches of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century following Zayd...
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  • described in a lost book by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (dating from ca. 920) and mentioned in works by some of his followers (Ibn Hawqal, Al-Istakhri, Hudud ul-'alam)...
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  • 5229 from Yāqūt's quotations.] al-Faqih, Ibn; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad; Aḥmad Ibn Faḍlān; Misʻar Ibn Muhalhil Abū Dulaf al-Khazrajī; Fuat Sezgin; M. Amawi;...
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    cost Zayd part of his Shia support, most of whom condemn Abu Bakr and Umar as usurpers of Ali's right to the caliphate. Those Shias who rejected Zayd joined...
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  • used the work of Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, the Figures of the Regions (Suwar al-aqalim), and thus he belonged to the Balkhī school. The Balkhī school also included...
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    Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787–886), known in Latin as Albumasar, astrologer Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850–934), geographer and mathematician Banū Mūsā brothers (9th century)...
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  • described in a lost book by Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (dating from c. 920) and mentioned in works by some of his followers (Ibn Hawqal, Al-Istakhri, Hudud ul-'alam)...
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  • al-Husayn Zayn al-Abidin. Zayd ibn Ali is also seen as a major religious figure by many Sunnis and was supported by the prominent Sunni jurist, Abu Hanifa...
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    Baghdad. Abu Hanifa also supported the cause of Zayd ibn Ali and Ibrahim al Qamar, both Alid Zaydi Imams. The structures of the tombs of Abu Hanifa and...
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    Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (/ælˈkɪndi/; Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Latin: Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab...
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    amicable numbers to be found 847 to 871 – Emirate of Bari 850 to 934 – Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, pioneer of mental health, medical psychology, cognitive psychology...
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    thought to be the greatest astrologer of the Abbasid court in Baghdad Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, 9th century Persian polymath: geographer, mathematician, physician...
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  • [timestamp needed][timestamp needed] The 9th century Persian polymath Abu Zayd al-Balkhi wrote about 'tranquilizing fear' by 'forcing oneself to repeatedly...
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  • al-Baṣrī Zayd ibn Akhzam al-Baṣrī al-‘Abbās al-‘Anbarī al-Baṣrī Muḥammad ibn al-Muthanná al-Baṣrī Muḥammad ibn Ma‘mar al-Baṣrī ad-Darimi Muslim Abu Dawud...
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    al-Abbas. Al-Sadiq maintained his father's policy of quietism in this period and, in particular, was not involved in the uprising of his uncle, Zayd,...
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