Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Habib ibn Samra ibn Jundab[1] al-Fazari (died 796 or 806) was a Muslim philosopher, mathematician and astronomer.[2][3] He is not to be confused with his father Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, also an astronomer and mathematician.

Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari
Died796 or 806
OccupationPhilosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer
EraIslamic Golden Age

Some sources refer to him as an Arab,[4][5][6][7] other sources state that he was a Persian.[8][9][10]

Al-Fazārī translated many scientific books into Arabic and Persian.[11] He is credited to have built the first astrolabe in the Islamic world.[9]

Along with Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq and his father he helped translate the Indian astronomical text by Brahmagupta (fl. 7th century), the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, into Arabic as Az-Zīj ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab.,[12] or the Sindhind. This translation was possibly the vehicle by means of which the Hindu numerals were transmitted from India to Islam.[13]

See also
  • Hindu and Buddhist contribution to science in medieval Islam
  • List of Iranian scientists and scholars
  • List of Arab scientists
  • List of Iranian scientists
  • zij

Notes
  1. "al-Fazārī".
    • H. Suter: Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (p. 4, 1900).
    • Introduction to the History of Science
    by George Sarton – Page 524
  4. Scott L. Montgomery. Science in Translation: movements of knowledge through cultures and time. p. 81.
  5. Abramovich, Boris et al. History of Civilizations of Central Asia. pp. 177–178.
  6. Pingree, David (1970). The Fragments of the Works of Al-Fazari. Journal of Near Eastern Studies. Vol. 29, No. 2. pp. 103–123.
  7. Yaqut al-Hamawi. Irshad al-Arib Fi Ma'rifat al-Adib. Ed. D. S. Margoliouth. "E. J. W. Ser.," 6. Vol. 6. 2d ed. London, 1931.
    • The Root of Europe: studies in the diffusion of Greek culture
    by Ralph Westwood Moore, Michael Huxley – 1952 – Page 48
    • From Freedom to Freedom: African roots in American soils : selected readings – by Ervin Lewis, Mildred Bain
    • Glimpses of Islamic History and Culture by M. D. Zafar – 1987 – Page 331
  12. E. S. Kennedy, A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables, (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 46, 2), Philadelphia, 1956, pp. 2, 7, 12 (zijes no. 2, 28, 71).
    • D. E. Smith and L. C. Karpinski: The Hindu-Arabic Numerals (Boston, 1911), p.92.).


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