Islamic Golden Age
c. 786–1258
Flourishing of science and culture under the Abbasids.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 786–1258
- Place
- Middle East
Who was alive during Islamic Golden Age
- Al-Khwarizmi c. 780–c. 850, mathematician
- Al-Farabi c. 872–c. 950, philosopher
- Ferdowsi 940–c. 1020, poet
- Erik the Red c. 950–c. 1003, explorer
- Ibn al-Haytham c. 965–c. 1040, physicist
- Leif Erikson c. 970–c. 1020, explorer
- Al-Biruni 973–c. 1050, scholar
- Avicenna c. 980–1037, philosopher and physician
- William the Conqueror c. 1028–1087, king
- Shen Kuo 1031–1095, polymath
- Omar Khayyam 1048–1131, poet
- Al-Ghazali c. 1058–1111, theologian and philosopher
- Hildegard of Bingen 1098–1179, abbess
- Averroes 1126–1198, philosopher
- Zhu Xi 1130–1200, philosopher
- Al-Jazari 1136–1206, engineer
- Saladin c. 1137–1193, sultan
- Maimonides c. 1138–1204, philosopher
- Genghis Khan c. 1162–1227, ruler
- King John of England 1166–1216, king
- Leonardo Fibonacci c. 1170–c. 1250, mathematician
- Rumi 1207–1273, poet
- Haji Bektash Veli c. 1209–c. 1271, Sufi mystic
- Saadi Shirazi c. 1210–1291, poet