Muslim Astronomers

Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني

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Post published:August 21, 2024
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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…

Abu ‘Ubayd al-Juzjani أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني

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Post published:July 14, 2024
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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…

Jamshid al-Kashi جمشید الکاشانی

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Post published:July 13, 2024
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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…

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah al-Khalili الخليلي

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Post published:July 13, 2024
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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…

Ulugh Beg الغ‌ بیگ

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Post published:July 10, 2024
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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…

Ali Qushji علي قوشجي

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Post published:July 10, 2024
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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).…

Ibn al-Shatir ابن الشاطر

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Post published:July 10, 2024
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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.…

Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi

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Post published:July 8, 2024
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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…

Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi

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Post published:July 8, 2024
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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…

Sadr al-Shari’a al-Asghar

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Post published:July 8, 2024
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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:…