#uzbeki

While Islam is often associated with the Arabs, Harvard's Richard N. Frye observed that "with few exceptions, most Muslim scholars both in the religious and intellectual sciences were non-Arabs." They were primarily Persians and Central Asians. A few Central Asian intellectuals.

Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina, who grew up in Bukhara (today in Uzbekistan), was a polymath and wrote Canon of Medicine, which was translated into Latin, and triggered the start of modern medicine in the West. (It's not him in the Picture)

Another polymath was Al-Khwārizmī, whose "systematic approach to solving linear and quadratic equations led to algebra"; he also made contributions to geography, astronomy, and cartography.

The famous poet, Omar Khayyam, constructed a geometrical theory of cubic equations. He might have been the first to accept irrational numbers as numbers.

All of them had many more achievements, and of course there were many more intellectuals still; and major contributions were made also to optics, chemistry, geology, history, architecture, and other fields. One of the first maps to include Japan was made, subarashii! The fields of anthropology, intercultural studies, comparative linguistics, and comparative religion were founded.