Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah al-Khalili

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah al-Khalili الخليلي

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 for: Astronomer.

Contributions: 

He worked for most of his life as a muwaqqit (a religious timekeeper) at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

Al-Khalili is known for two sets of mathematical tables he constructed, both totalling roughly 30,000 entries.

Articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shams_al-Din_Abu_Abd_Allah_al-Khalili

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khalili/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/al-khalili-shams-al-din-abu-abdallah-muhammad-ibn-muhammad

Books attributed to al-Khalili: