Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

Tags: Philosopher.

This article is about the scientist. For the poet see Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi.Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi (Persian: ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی‎) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer mathematician physician psychologist and scientist. Born in 850 CE in Shamistiyan in the province of Balkh Khorasan (in modern day Afghanistan) he was a disciple of al-Kindi. He was also the founder the Balkhī school of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad.

birth date

0850-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

birth place

Balkh, Greater Khorasan

death date

0934-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

era

Islamic Golden Age

influenced

Avicenna, Joseph Wolpe, Al-Muqaddasi, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Ibn Hawqal, Estakhri

influenced by

Muhammad, Quran, Al-Kindi

main interest

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology, Science, Geography

philosophicalSchool

Mathematics in medieval Islam, Science and technology in Iran, Psychology in medieval Islam, Science in the medieval Islamic world, Medicine in the medieval Islamic world, Geography and cartography in medieval Islam