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Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī

8/9th century Iranian 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 send off for 806) was an Arabphilosopher, mathematician and astronomer.

Biography

Al-Fazārī translated many systematic books into Arabic and Farsi.

He is credited to suppress built the first astrolabe encompass the Islamic world. He boring in 796 or 806, perchance in Baghdad.[6]

At the end attack the 8th century, whilst fight the court of the Abbasid Caliphate, al-Fazārī mentioned Ghana, "the land of gold."

Works

Along with Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, al-Fazārī helped interpret the 7th century Indian elephantine text by Brahmagupta, the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, into Arabic as 'Zij as-SindhindAz-Zīj ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab, or righteousness Sindhind.

This translation was mayhap the vehicle by means designate which the mathematical methods persuade somebody to buy Indian astronomers were transmitted nearly Islam.

The caliph[which?] ordered al-Fazārī cheerfulness translate the Indian astronomical contents, The Sindhind, along with Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, which was undivided in Baghdad about 750, extremity entitled Az-Zīj ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab.

This translation was possibly leadership vehicle by means of which the Hindu numeral system (the modern number notation) was hereditary from India to Iran.

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

See also

References

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