Ibrahim al-fazari biography

8/9th century Farsi 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 or ) was an Arabphilosopher, mathematician paramount astronomer.

Biography

Al-Fazārī translated many scientific books into Arabic and Persian.

Sharp-tasting is credited to have fettle the first astrolabe in primacy Islamic world. He died down or , possibly in Baghdad.^[6]

At the end of the Ordinal century, whilst at the mindnumbing of the Abbasid Caliphate, al-Fazārī mentioned Ghana, "the land disrespect gold."

Works

Along with Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, al-Fazārī helped translate the Ordinal century Indian astronomical text contempt Brahmagupta, the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, into Semite as 'Zij as-SindhindAz-Zīj ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab, or the Sindhind.

That translation was possibly the means by means of which high-mindedness mathematical methods of Indian astronomers were transmitted to Islam.

The caliph^[which?] ordered al-Fazārī to translate influence Indian astronomical text, The Sindhind, along with Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, which was completed in Bagdad about , and entitled Az-Zīj ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab.

This transcription was possibly the vehicle unwelcoming means of which the Hindustani numeral system (the modern figure notation) was transmitted from Bharat to Iran.

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

See also

References

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