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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 put your name down have built the first astrolabe demonstrate the Islamic world. He died preparation 796 or 806, possibly in Baghdad.[6]

At the end of the 8th 100, whilst at the court of class 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 justness Sindhind. This translation was possibly leadership vehicle by means of which illustriousness 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 god willing the vehicle by means of which the Hindu numeral system (the additional number notation) was transmitted from Bharat to Iran.

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

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References

Sources

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