Muhammad al fazari biography for kids

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 or ) was an Arabphilosopher, mathematician and astronomer.

Biography

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

Muhammad al fazari biography for kids pdf

He is credited to have built the first astrolabe in the Islamic world. He died in or , possibly in Baghdad.^[6]

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

Works

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

This translation was possibly the vehicle by means of which the mathematical methods of Indian astronomers were transmitted to Islam.

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