Amazing Scientists
This scientist is called the father of algebra. His name sounds like “algorithm.”
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
Muslim inventors made this early clock with an elephant and moving people!
What is the Elephant Clock?
Muslims used this tooth-cleaning stick that the Prophet ﷺ loved.
What is a miswāk?
Muslims studied stars to find the direction of Mecca.
What is the Qibla?
This hot drink was first made by Yemeni Muslims to stay awake for prayer.
What is coffee?
He studied light and how the eye sees. He even made a dark box that worked like a camera!
Who is Ibn al-Haytham?
Muslim sailors used this tool to find direction and tell prayer times.
What is the Astrolabe?
This doctor wrote the first big book about surgery and made tools still used today.
Who is Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)?
This tool helped sailors and travelers find their way by looking at the stars.
What is an Astrolabe?
Muslims invented this number system that we use today: 0–9.
What are Arabic numerals?
This Muslim scientist is known as the father of chemistry.
Who is Jabir ibn Hayyan?
Abbas ibn Firnas made these to test flying like a bird.
What are wings?
This doctor told the difference between measles and smallpox 1,000 years ago!
Who is Al-Razi (Rhazes)?
Al-Khwarizmi made tables to help people tell prayer times and find directions.
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
Muslims built beautiful fountains and gardens with smart water systems.
What are water fountains?
Three brothers known as Banu Musa built fun machines that moved by themselves.
Who are the Banu Musa brothers?
Muslim engineers made early windmills to grind grain.
What is a windmill?
A muslim Doctor considered the father of Modern Medicin
What is a Ibn Sina (Avicenna)?
Muslim scientists gave many star names we still use today, like “Aldebaran.”
What are Arabic star names?
They built the first universities, like Al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco
What is a university?
This brave man tried to fly with wings long before airplanes were made!
Who is Abbas ibn Firnas?
Al-Jazari made this type of robot that could pour drinks and move!
What is a robot or automaton?
Muslim doctors made pharmacies where people could buy medicine safely.
What is a pharmacy?
Muslim scientists built the first observatories to study space.
What are observatories?
This math word comes from Arabic “al-jabr.”
What is algebra?