Fatima Al-Majritiya فاطمة المجريطي

Full Name: Fatima Al-Majritiya.

Daughter of Abu al-Qasim Maslama ibn Ahmad al-Majriti.

Other Names: Fatima of Madrid.

Arabic: فاطمة المجريطي

Origin: Andalus, Spain.

Born: 950 AD.

Died: 1007 AD.

Famous for: Astronomy and Mathematics.

Contribution:

Contributions to observational astronomy.

“the Corrections of Fatima“, which included amendments to her father’s discoveries in astronomy and mathematics.

Fatimah and her father worked on astronomical calendars, corrected the “Astronomical Tables of Al-Khwarizmi” (by transforming the Persian calendar to the Islamic calendar.), and determined the position of Celestial bodies such as the Sun, Moon, and planets.

Articles

https://muslimwomenmathematicians.org/Fatimah.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslama_al-Majriti

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A1tima_de_Madrid