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ARA 102 S21 - 2 pm Class - Group 1 Islamic science after the Abbasid era -…
ARA 102 S21 - 2 pm Class - Group 1 Islamic science after the Abbasid era
Al tusi
Persian Muslim Polymath born in Tus
Regarded by Ibn Khaldun as the greatest of the later Persian scholars
Famous in Astronomy
Convinced Hulagu to build an observatory
Ibn Al Shatir
Famous in Astronomy
Damascene Arab Polymath
Worked as the Muwaqqit of the Great Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
drastically reformed the Ptolemaic models of the Sun, Moon, and planets.
Historians found that his geometric models particularly for the Moon, Mercury, and Venus, are quite identical to those of Copernicus
Ulugh Beg
Famous in Astronomy
ruler of the Timurid Empire
Greatest contributions: Building the Samarkand observatory/ The Zij Sultani
Al-Khafri
Muslim Persian
Famous in Astronomy
He Represents the culmination of the Maghra school of astronomy (Tusi, Shiraz, Qushj)
Group Members: Farah El-Batouty