Contributions of Muslims Scientists in field of biological science

Muslims Scientists

The Muslim scientists made considerable progress in biology especially in botany and developed horticulture to a high degree of perfection.They paid greater attention to botany in comparison to zoology.Botany reached its zenith in spain.In zoology the study of the horse was developed almost to the tank of a science.Abu Ubaidah(728-825 A.D).Who wrote more than 100 books.devoted more than fifty books to the study of the horse.

Al-Jahiz :who flourished in Basra is reputed to be one of the greatest zoologists the Muslim world has produced.His influence in the subject may be traced to the Persian 'Al-Qazwini 'and the Egyptian  'AL-Damiri'.His book 'Ratab al Haywan'(book ori animals)contains germs of later theories of evolution ,adapation and animal psychology.

Al-Damiri:- who died in 1405 in Cairo and who was influenced by Al-Jahiz is the greatest Arab Zoologist .his book Hayat Haywarz (life of animal)is the most important Muslim work in zoology.It is an encyclopaedia on animal life containing a mine of  information on the subject .it cotains the history of animals and preceded butffon by 700 years.

Al-Masudi:-  has given the rudiments of the theory of evolution in his well known work-Meadows of gold.Another of his works Kitab al-Tanbih wal Ishraq advances his views on evolution namely from mineral to plant,from plant to animal and from animal to man.

Abu-Zakariya :-Yahya Ibn Muhammad Ibn-Al Awwan who flourished at the end of 12 century in Seville(Spain)was the author of the most Islamic treatise on agriculture during the mediaeval  times entiled Kitab al Filahah. 

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