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Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (370-428 H) Abu `Ali Husain b. `Abdullah Ibn Sina, Balkhi, better known as Avicenna in the West, was the greatest of all medieval Muslim physicians. Also known as  Al-Shaykh Al-Ra’as , and celebrated in the Western world as ‘the father of modern medicine,’ his is the most illustrious name in Arabic medical history after al-Razi. While Al-Razi was more of a physician than Ibn Sina, Ibn Sina was more of a philosopher. The author of 450 books on a variety of subjects including Philosophy and Medicine, Ibn Sina had a direct impact on the intellectual rebirth of Europe. George Sarton considers him to be the most famous scientist of Islam and one of the most famous of all races, places and times. He was one in the famed quartet of Mu`tazilite scholars, others being Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi and Ibn Rushd. Of the first three, it is said that the harmonization of Greek philosophy with Islam begun by al-Kindi, an Arab, was continued by al-Farabi, a Turk, and completed ...

Wawacan  adalah bentuk karya sastra yang sangat populer pada abad ke-19 sampai awal abad ke-20. Sebelum orang Sunda mengenal bentuk penulisan prosa, hampir semua bentuk tulisan disusun dalam bentuk puisi wawacan dan dangding, yang dikarang menggunakan aturan pupuh. Ada sebuah wawacan yang menurut penelitian Dr.  Mikihiro Moriyama , peneliti kebudayaan  Sunda  dari  Jepang , menjadi tonggak berkembangnya modernitas di kalangan orang Sunda. Wawacan tersebut adalah Wawacan Panji Wulung yang ditulis oleh R.H. Moehamad Moesa, Penghulu  Kabupaten Garut  pada zaman  kolonial . Dalam bukunya Semangat Baru: Kolonialisme, Budaya  Cetak, dan  Kesastraan Sunda  Abad ke-19 (2005), Moriyama menyatakan: "Wawacan Panji Wulung merefleksikan perjuangan penceritanya disertai dengan perkembangan modern dan ikhtiarnya untuk memperkenalkan gagasan-gagasan dan konsep baru kepada para pembacanya. Oleh karena itu, wawacan ini ditafsirkan sebagai ekspre...

Al Khwarizmi The Father of Algebra Contributed by Prof. Dr. Ibrahim B. Syed Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, (780 – 850 CE), was the grandfather of computer science and the father of Algebra. He was the popularizer of Arabic numerals, adopter of zero (the symbol, that is) and the decimal system, astronomer, cartographer, in briefs an encyclopedic scholar.