the First Mujaddid and Sixth Righteous Caliph of Islam

Founder of the Mughal Empire in India

First female Sufi Saint of Islam. A woman who called no man her master

First astronomer to describe the 'nebulosity' of the nebula in Andromeda in the Book of Fixed Stars (Kitab suwar al-kawakib).

Major contributor to Astronomy and Engineering

Scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher. 'the Greatest Shaykh'

Most renowned for his compilation of the most authentic Hadith collection, Sahih al-Bukhari

Founder of the world's oldest university

Father of Robotics & Modern-Day Engineering. Best known for writing The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices

Father of Arab Philosophy & Cryptography. Philosophical treatises include On First Philosophy, in which he argues that the world is not eternal and that God is a simple One

Founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran & the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Founder of Philosophy within the Islamic world

One of the Greatest Female Soldiers in history

A Moroccan Privateer Leader who controlled the Western Mediterranean Sea

A minister, a leader in the civil rights movement

An Education Activist & the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Father of the Founder of the Ottoman Empire

Founder of Indology. Father of Comparative Religion, and Modern Geodesy

Wealthiest person in history

A Navigator, Geographer and Cartographer. Known today for his maps and charts collected in his Book of Navigation (Kitab-ı Bahriye)

the longest-reigning UFC Lightweight Champion

9th Century Abyssinian Goatherd who discovered the stimulating effect of Coffee

Ruled a unified Muslim region stretching from Egypt to Arabia

One of the Great Warriors who defended the prophet in the Battle of Uhud

Most Successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history

Father of Early Modern Medicine. Famous works are The Book of Healing (Kitāb al-Shifāʾ) and The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn fī al-Ṭibb)

Roaming countries & making a difference

Most Powerful and Influential Woman in Ottoman history

Founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia

the Tenth and Longest-Reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Historian and hagiographer

Regarded as One of the best reciters of the Qur'an who ever lived

Inventor of Algebra. First to use decimals to express the fractions

An Andalusian Intellectual, Mathematician, and Poet

Father of operative surgery

Greatest medieval Muslim Traveler and the author of One of the most famous travel books, the Rihalah (Travels)

Astronomer, Designer & Developer of the ultimate Astrolabe

Father of modern optics. Founder of Psychophysics & Experimental Psychology. Most influential work is titled Book of Optics (Kitāb al-Manāẓir)

Self-taught Muslim thinker, author, and orator on Comparitive Religion

Egypt's most popular and successful Islamic preachers

a Singer, Oud and Lute player, Composer, Poet, and Teacher who lived and worked in Iraq, Northern Africa, and Andalusia during the medieval Islamic period

One of the Greatest Boxers in history

Prince of Science

The first and only Female Muslim Ruler of the Delhi Sultanate

Known for their Book of Ingenious Devices (Kitab al-Hiyal)

Sufi Mystic and Poet in the Persian language

Remembered for the series of wells and reservoirs that provided water for Muslim pilgrims along the route from Baghdad to Mecca and Medina, which was renamed the Darb Zubaidah

Undefeated in 41 battles against professional Persian and Roman armies

One of the Greatest Social Scientists of the Middle Ages

5th century's Mujaddid, a renewer of the faith