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ARA 102 S21 - 2:00 Pm Class - Group 6 - Post-Abbasid Scientists
Al Tusi Muhammad
He was known as Nasir al Din and was viewed by Ibn Khaldun as the greatest of the later Persian scholars
Ibn al-Shatir
Damascene astronomer, mathematician, engineer, and
inventor
His most important work was Kitab nihayat al-sul fi
tashih al-usul (The Final Quest Concerning the Rectification of
Principles)
Al-Farisi
Persian mathematician and physicist
Made a reivision of Kitab al-Manazir known as Tanqih al-Manazir
In number theory, his most important work was Tadhkirat
al-Ahbab fi Bayan al-Tahabb (Memorandum for Friends on the Proof of Amicability),
Al-Shirazi
Persian polymath and poet
Most important works were:
1- Nehayat al-Idrak fi Dirayat al-Aflak (The Limit
of Accomplishment Concerning Knowledge of the Heavens)
2- Al-Tuhfah al-Shahiya (The Royal Present)
Ulugh Beg ("Great Ruler")
Timurid Ruler (Born in Persia) and an important astronomer and mathematician
Greatest contribution
was building the Samarkand observatory
His greatest work was the Zij-i-Sultani, one of the greatest star catalogues of pre-modern
times.
Al-Qushji
Turkic or
Persian astronomer, mathematician and physicist
Contributed and supported in many of the works of Ulugh Beg
Established astronomy on physical rather than
philosophical bases
Al-Khafri
Iranian theoretical astronomer and religious
scholar
Considered by Saliba to be “one of the most competent of all the mathematical astronomers and planetary theorists of medieval
Islam… and perhaps the most competent of all of them.”
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