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The first astronomical texts that were translated into Arabic were of Indian [2] and Persian origin. [3] The most notable was Zij al-Sindhind, a zij produced by Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī and Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, who translated an 8th-century Indian astronomical work after 770, with the assistance of Indian astronomers who were at the court of caliph Al-Mansur.
Hispano-Moresque ware: This was a style of Islamic pottery created in Arab Spain, after the Moors had introduced two ceramic techniques to Europe: glazing with an opaque white tin-glaze, and painting in metallic lusters. Hispano-Moresque ware was distinguished from the pottery of Christendom by the Islamic character of its decoration. [107]
The Tusi couple, a mathematical device invented by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi to model the not perfectly circular motions of the planets. Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids and the Buyids in ...
In the history of astronomy, Islamic astronomy or Arabic astronomy refers to the developments made by Islamic astronomers. Islamic astronomy parallels that of other Islamic sciences in its assimilation of known works and development of these works.
Al-ʻIjliyyah bint al-ʻIjliyy (Arabic: العجلية بنت العجلي) [1] was a 10th-century maker of astrolabes active in Aleppo, in what is now northern Syria. [2] [3] ...
Astronomy Manuscript of al-Mulakhkhas fi al-Hay’ah in the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. Jaghmini completed the al-Mulakhkhas fi al-Hay’ah ("Epitome of plain theoretical astronomy"), an astronomical textbook which spawned many commentaries and whose educational use lasted until the 18th century. [4] Miscellaneous
Islamic scientific achievements encompassed a wide range of subject areas, especially medicine, mathematics, astronomy, agriculture as well as physics, economics, engineering and optics.
al-Battānī محمد بن جابر بن سنان البتاني A folio from a Latin translation of Kitāb az-Zīj aṣ-Ṣābi’ (c. 900), Latin 7266, Bibliothèque nationale de France Born Before 858 Harran, Islamic Syria (modern-day Turkey) Died 929 Qasr al-Jiss, near Samarra Academic work Era Islamic Golden Age Main interests Mathematics, astronomy, astrology Notable works Kitāb az-Zīj ...