Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi عبدالرحمن الصوفی
Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī عبدالرحمن الصوفی December 903 – 25 May 986) was an Iranian astronomer. His work Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib (“The Book of Fixed Stars”), written in 964, included both textual descriptions and illustrations. The Persian polymath Al-Biruni wrote that al-Ṣūfī’s work on the ecliptic was carried out in Shiraz. Al-Ṣūfī lived at the Buyid court in Isfahan.