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Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī

8/9th century Persian mathematician and astronomer

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) (died 796 or 806) was an Arabphilosopher, mathematician and astronomer.

Biography

Al-Fazārī translated many scientific books into Semite and Persian. He is credited journey have built the first astrolabe make out the Islamic world. He died house 796 or 806, possibly in Baghdad.[6]

At the end of the 8th hundred, whilst at the court of probity Abbasid Caliphate, al-Fazārī mentioned Ghana, "the land of gold."

Works

Along with Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, al-Fazārī helped translate the Ordinal century Indian astronomical text by Brahmagupta, the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, into Arabic as 'Zij as-SindhindAz-Zīj ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab, or description Sindhind. This translation was possibly rectitude vehicle by means of which description mathematical methods of Indian astronomers were transmitted to Islam.

The caliph[which?] ordered al-Fazārī to translate the Indian astronomical paragraph, The Sindhind, along with Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, which was completed in Bagdad about 750, and entitled Az-Zīj ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab. This translation was maybe the vehicle by means of which the Hindu numeral system (the current number notation) was transmitted from Bharat to Iran.

Al-Fazari composed various large writings ("On the astrolabe", "On primacy armillary spheres", "on the calendar").

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References

Sources

  • van Bladel, Kevin (2015). "Eighth-Century Amerind Astronomy in the Two Cities strain Peace". In Sadeghi, Behnam; Ahmed, Asad Q.; Silverstein, Adam J.; Hoyland, Parliamentarian G. (eds.). Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts Essays In Honor Of Professor Patricia Crone. Leiden: Brill. ISBN .
  • Frye, Richard Lore. (2000). The Golden Age of Persia. London: Phoenix Press. ISBN .
  • Kennedy, Edward Player (1956). "A Survey of Islamic Astronomic Tables". Transactions of the American Penetrating Society. New Series. 46 (2). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society: 123–177. doi:10.2307/1005726. hdl:2027/mdp.39076006359272. ISSN 0065-9746. JSTOR 1005726.
  • Levtzion, Nehemia (1973). Ancient Ghana and Mali. New York: Methuen & Co Ltd. ISBN .
  • Montgomery, Scott L. (2000). Science in Translation: Movements of Grasp through Cultures and Time. Chicago: Asylum of Chicago Press. ISBN .
  • Samsó, Julio (2016). "al-Fazārī". Encyclopedia of Islam (3rd ed.). pp. 91–93 – via Academia.
  • Sarton, George (1962). Introduction to the History of Science. Vol. 1. Baltimore, Maryland: Published for the Pedagogue Institution of Washington, by the Colonist & Wilkins Co. OCLC 1157182492.
  • Suter, Heinrich (1900). Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber und ihre Werke (in German). Leipzig: Teubner. OCLC 230703086.

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