Muhammad al-Fazari
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Abu abdallah Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari (d. 796 or 806) was a Persian[1][2][3][4] philosopher, mathematician and astronomer.[5][6] He is not to be confused with his father Ibrahim al-Fazari, also an astronomer and mathematician.
Al-Fazari translated many scientific books into Arabic and Persian.[7] He is credited to have built the first astrolabe in the Islamic world.[8]
Along with Yaqub ibn Tariq and his father he helped translate the Indian astronomical text by Brahmagupta (fl. seventh century AD), the Brahmasphutasiddhanta, into Arabic as the Sindhind. This translation was possibly the vehicle by means of which the Hindu numerals were transmitted from India to Islam. [9]
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- ^ * The Root of Europe: studies in the diffusion of Greek culture by Ralph Westwood Moore, Michael Huxley - 1952 - Page 48
- ^ * Islamic Culture by Islamic Cultural Board, Muhammad Asad, Academic and Cultural Publications Charitable Trust (Hyderabad, India), Marmaduke William Pickthall - 1927 - Page 314
- ^ * Richard N. Frye, The Golden Age of Persia, p. 163.
- ^ * From Freedom to Freedom: African roots in American soils : selected readings - by Ervin Lewis, Mildred Bain
- ^ * H. Suter: Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (p. 4, 1900).
- ^ * Introduction to the History of Science by George Sarton - Page 524
- ^ * Glimpses of Islamic History and Culture by M. D. Zafar - 1987 - Page 331
- ^ * Richard N. Frye, The Golden Age of Persia, p. 163.
- ^ * D. E. Smith and L. C. Karpinski: The Hindu-Arabic Numerals (Boston, 1911), p.92.).
- Cantor: Geschichte der Mathematik (I, 3rd ed., 698, 1907).
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