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Fatima al-Fihri
800 – 880Founded al-Qarawiyyin in 859, the oldest continuously operating university.
Morocco·History
Al-Biruni
973 – 1048Measured Earth's radius to within 1% and wrote the first comparative anthropology of India.
Uzbekistan·Astronomy · Mathematics · History
Avicenna's student Al-Juzjani
980 – 1070Preserved and completed Ibn Sina's corpus.
Afghanistan·Medicine · History
Shen Kuo
1031 – 1095Described the magnetic compass and deduced geological deep time.
China·Astronomy · Engineering · History
Ibn Battuta
1304 – 1369Travelled some 120,000 km across the medieval world and wrote the Rihla.
Morocco·Literature · History
Ibn Khaldun
1332 – 1406Founded sociology and economic history with the Muqaddimah.
Tunisia·History · Economics · Philosophy