Editing Moors (section)

== Notable Moors ==
{{See also|List of Berbers|List of Arab scientists and scholars}}
[[File:AverroesColor.jpg|thumb|[[Averroes]], a Moorish polymath, was the founder of the [[Averroism]] school of philosophy, and influential in the rise of [[Secularism|secular thought]] in [[Western Europe]]. Painted by [[Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze|Andrea Bonaiuto]] in 14th century]]
[[File:Sebastiano_del_Piombo_Portrait_of_a_Humanist.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Leo Africanus]], born in Granada]]

*[[Tariq ibn Ziyad]], Moorish general who defeated the [[Visigoths]] and [[Umayyad conquest of Hispania|conquered Hispania]] in 711
*[[Abd ar-Rahman I]], founder of the [[Umayyad]] [[Emirate of Córdoba]] in 756; along with its succeeding [[Caliphate of Córdoba]], the dynasty ruled [[Al-Andalus|Islamic Iberia]] for three centuries.
*[[Ibn al-Qūṭiyya]], Andalusian historian and [[linguistics|grammarian]].
*[[Yahya al-Laithi]], Andalusian scholar who introduced the [[Maliki]] school of jurisprudence in Al-Andalus.
*[[Abbas ibn Firnas]], 810–887, [[Berbers|Berber]] [[List of inventions in the medieval Islamic world|inventor]], poet, and scientist in the [[Emirate of Córdoba]].
*[[Maslama al-Majriti]], died 1007, Andalusian writer
*[[Al-Zahrawi]] (Abulcasis), [[Medicine in medieval Islam|Andalusian physician]] and surgeon whose work ''[[Al-Tasrif]]'', published in 1000, remained influential for centuries.
*[[Said Al-Andalusi]], 1029–1070, Andalusian [[Qadi]], historian, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer.
*[[Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī]] (Arzachel), 1029–1087, [[Astronomy in medieval Islam|Andalusian astronomer]] and engineer who developed the [[equatorium]] and universal (latitude-independent) [[astrolabe]] and compiled a ''[[Zij]]'' later used as a basis for the ''[[Tables of Toledo]]''.
*[[Artephius]], a writer to whom a number of [[alchemy|alchemical]] texts are ascribed.
*[[Ibn Bajjah]] (Avempace), died 1138, [[Physics in medieval Islam|Andalusian physicist]] and [[polymath]] whose theory of motion, including the concept of a [[Reaction (physics)|reaction]] force, influenced the development of [[classical mechanics]].
*[[Ibn Zuhr]] (Avenzoar), 1091–1161, Andalusian physician and polymath
*[[Muhammad al-Idrisi]], circa 1100–1166, [[Geography in medieval Islam|Moorish geographer]] and polymath who drew the ''[[Tabula Rogeriana]]''
*[[Ibn Tufail]], circa 1105–1185, [[Arabic literature|Arabic writer]] and polymath who wrote ''[[Hayy ibn Yaqdhan]]'', a [[philosophical novel]].
*[[Averroes]] (Ibn Rushd), 1126–1198, [[Early Islamic philosophy|classical Islamic philosopher]] and polymath who wrote ''[[The Incoherence of the Incoherence]]'' and several [[Aristotelianism|Aristotelian]] commentaries, and established the school of [[Averroism]].
*[[Ibn al-Baitar]], died 1248, [[Muslim Agricultural Revolution|Andalusian botanist]] and pharmacist who compiled the most extensive [[pharmacopoeia]] and botanical compilation in pre-modern times.
*[[Ibn Khaldun]], who wrote about [[sociology in medieval Islam|sociology, historiography]] and [[Islamic economics in the world|economics]] in the ''[[Muqaddimah]]'' in 1377. Although he is born and raised in [[Tunis]], he is originally from an [[Arabs|Arab]] family that immigrated from [[Seville]] after the fall of the city during the [[Reconquista]]. 
*[[Abū al-Hasan ibn Alī al-Qalasādī]], 1412–1486, [[Mathematics in medieval Islam|Moorish mathematician]] who helped popularize [[Mathematical notation|algebraic symbolism]].
*[[Leo Africanus]], 1494–1554, Andalusian geographer, author and diplomat, who was captured by Spanish [[privateer|pirates]] and sold as a slave, but later baptized and freed.
*[[Estevanico]], also referred to as "Stephen the Moor", was an explorer in the service of Spain of what is now the southwest of the United States.
*[[Ibn Battuta]], an Islamic scholar and Moorish explorer who is generally considered one of the greatest travelers of all time.
*[[Ibn Hazm]], a Moorish polymath who was considered one of the leading thinkers of the [[Muslim World]] and is widely acknowledged as the father of [[Comparative religion]] studies.
*[[Ibn Idhari]], a Moorish historian who was the author of ([[Al-Bayan al-Mughrib]]) an important medieval text on the history of the [[Maghreb]] and [[Iberian Peninsula|Iberia]].
*[[Ibn Arabi]], [[Al-Andalus|Andalusian]] Sufi mystic and philosopher.
*[[Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi]], a judge and [[scholar]] of [[Maliki]] law from [[al-Andalus]].