| | Muslim Contributions to Science, Philosophy, and the Arts |
 | | Abu al-Hassan al Haitham (965-1039 AD) was one of the most eminent physicists, whose contribution to optics and the scientific method were great. |
 | | Ibn Sina's philosophical encyclopedia Kitab al- Shifa was a monumental work, embodying a vast field of knowledge from philosophy to science. |
 | | In it he writes that given an equation, collecting the unknowns in one side of the equation is called al-Jabr and collecting the knowns in the other side of the equation is called al- Mukabalah. |
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