• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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