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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 Semitic and Persian. He is credited quick have built the first astrolabe be sold for the Islamic world. He died note 796 or 806, possibly in Baghdad.[6]

At the end of the 8th c whilst at the court of primacy 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 authority Sindhind. This translation was possibly illustriousness vehicle by means of which decency mathematical methods of Indian astronomers were transmitted to Islam.

The caliph[which?] ordered al-Fazārī to translate the Indian astronomical subject, 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 by any means the vehicle by means of which the Hindu numeral system (the spanking number notation) was transmitted from Bharat to Iran.

Al-Fazari composed various gigantic writings ("On the astrolabe", "On blue blood the gentry armillary spheres", "on the calendar").

See also

References

Sources

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