Contribution of Muslims in the field of Astronomy and all related sciences.
Full Name: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī . Arabic: أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني Born: 893 AD Died: 947 AD. Origin: Sanaa, Yemen Famous for: Historian, Geographer and Astronomer. Contributions: Kitab al-Jawharatayn al-ʻatīqatayn Sifat Jazirat ul-Arab (صفة جزيرة العرب) Kitāb al-Iklīl min akhbār al-Yaman wa-ansāb Ḥimyar (الإكليل من أخبار…
Full Name: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al‐Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al‐Jūzjānī. Arabic: أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني Born: Died: 1070AD. Origin: Guzgan, Persia. Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: He aided Ibn Sīnā with the compilation of the Cure (al‐Shifāʾ). Added the sections on geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music from Ibn Sīnā’s earlier works to…
Jamshid al-Kashi is considered as one of the greatest persian mathmetician and astronomer of his times. Full Name: Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Masʿūd al-Kāshī (or al-Kāshānī). Arabic: غیاث الدین جمشید کاشانی Born: 1380AD. Died: 1429AD. Origin: Kashan, Iran. Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: Al-Kashi invented the Plate of Conjunctions, an analog computing instrument used to…
Al-Khalili was an astronomer, who compiled an extensive corpus of tables for timekeeping by the sun and regulating the astronomically defined time of Muslim prayer . Full Name: Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī. Arabic: شمس الدين عبد الله محمد بن محمد الخليلي Born: 1320AD. Died: 1380 AD. Origin: Damascus, Syria. Famous…
Full Name: Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh . Arabic: میرزا محمد طارق بن شاہ رخ Other Names: Ulugh Beg Born: 1394 AD. Died: 1449 AD. Origin: Sultaniyeh, Timurid Empire (now Zanjan Province, Iran). Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: He built the great Ulugh Beg Observatory in Samarkand between 1424 and 1429. He built the…
Full Name: Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed . Arabic: علاء الدين علي بن محمد Other Names: Ulugh Beg Born: 1403 AD. Died: 1474 AD. Origin: Samarkand, Timurid Empire (now Uzbekistan). Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: The founding of Sahn-ı Seman Medrese, one of the first centers for the study of various traditional Islamic sciences…
Full Name: Abu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn bin Alī bin Ibrāhīm bin Muhammad bin al-Matam al-Ansari. Other Names: Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir. Arabic: ابن الشاطر Born: 1304AD. Died: 1375 AD. Origin: Damascus, Syria. Famous for: Astronomer, Mathematician, and Engineer. Contributions: Constructed a sundial for minaret of Umayyad Mosque in Damascus in 1371/72. Ibn al-Shatir also…
Al-Samarqandī is known as mathematicians for his famous tract Kitāb Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (“Book on the Fundamental Theorems”). Full Name: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī. Arabic: شمس الدین سمرقندی Born: 1250 AD. Died: 1310 AD. Origin: Samarkand, now in Uzbekistan. Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: He wrote Synopsis of Astronomy, and produced a…
A number of books are attributed to Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi written about astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory, philosophy and Sufism. Full Name: Qotb al-Din Mahmoud b. Zia al-Din Mas’ud b. Mosleh Shirazi. Arabic: قطب‌الدینْ محمود بن ضیاءالدینْ مسعود بن مصلح شیرازی Born: 1236 AD. Died: 1311 AD. Origin: Kazerun, Iran. Famous for: Astronomer and…
Sadr al-Shari’a al-Asghar authored of a number of influential works in the Hanafi school of thoughts. Full Name: Ubayd-Allah b. Mas’ud b. Mahmud b. Ahmad b. ‘Ubayd-Allah al-Mahbubi al-Bukhari. Arabic: صدر الشريعة الأصغر Other Names: Sadr al-Shari’a al-Thani, Sadr al-Shari’a al-Asghar. Born: Died: 1346 AD. Origin: Kazerun, Iran. Famous for: Astronomer and Muslim Scholar. Contributions: …
