Contribution of Muslims in the field of Astronomy and all related sciences.
Full Name: Abu Said al-Dharir al-Jurjani Arabic: ابو سعيد الضرير الجرجاني Origin: Persia, Iran Dies: 9th century Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer Contribution: Geometrical problems The drawing of the meridian Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Said_Gorgani
Full Name: Abu Hanifa Ahmad ibn Dawud Dinawari Arabic: ابوحنيفه دينوری Origin: Dinawar in modern-day western Iran Dies: 895 AD Famous for: Astronomer, Agriculturist, Botanist, Metallurgist, Geographer, Mathematician, and Historian Contribution: Iranian and Islamic history Al-Dinawari is considered the founder of Arabic botany Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Hanifa_Dinawari https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Dinawari https://iranicaonline.org/articles/dinavari-abu-hanifa-ahmad Books attributed to Abu Hanifa Dinawari
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari Philosopher, mathematician and Astronomer of 8th century. Full Name: Abu Mashar Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Balkhi Arabic: أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد بن عمر Born: 787 AD Origin: Wasiṭ, Iraq Dies: 886 AD Famous for: Astrology and Astronomy Contribution: Many books and translations Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666870/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002182869502600208?journalCode=jhaa
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari Philosopher, mathematician and Astronomer of 8th century. Full Name: Abu-Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isa Mahani Arabic: ابوعبدالله محمد بن عیسی ماهانی Origin: Mahan in today Kerman, Iran Dies: 880 AD Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer Contribution: Commentaries on Euclid’s Elements Archimedes’ On the Sphere and Cylinder The calculation of azimuths Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mahani…
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…
Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī (Arabic: أبو العبّاس أحمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني) also known as Alfraganus in the West (c. 800 – 870), was an astronomer in the Abbasid court in Baghdad, and one of the most famous astronomers in the 9th century. Al-Farghani composed several works on astronomy and astronomical…
Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi was a astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of 9th century Full Name: Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi Arabic: حبش الحاسب المروزي Born: 766 AD Origin: Iran (Persia) Merv in Khorasan Dies: 869 AD Famous for: Astronomy Contribution: Al-Hasib conducted various observations at the Al-Shammisiyyah observatory in Baghdad and estimated a number of geographic and astronomical…
Sind ibn Ali was a ninth-century astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer. Full Name: Abu al-Tayyib Sanad ibn Ali. Arabic: أبو الطيب سند بن علي Origin: Sanad ibn Ali was either an Iraqi Jewish or Sindhi from Mansura, capital of Arab Sindh. Dies: 864 AD Famous for: Astronomy and Mathemmatics Contribution: Translated and modified the Zij…
Al-Khwarizmi has been described as the father or founder of Algebra Full Name: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Arabic: محمد بن موسى الخوارزمي Born: 780AD Origin: Iran (Persia) Dies: 850 AD Famous for: Algebra and the Hindu–Arabic numeral system Contribution: First person to treat algebra as an independent discipline The first systematic solution of linear and…
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari Philosopher, mathematician and Astronomer of 8th century. Full Name: Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Habib ibn Sulayman ibn Samra ibn Jundab al-Fazari Arabic: محمد بن إبراهيم بن حبيب بن سليمان بن سمرة بن جندب الفزاري Dies: 796-806 AD Origin: Iraq Famous for: Astronomy and Translations Contribution: He is credited to have built…
