List of Muslim astronomers
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- This is a sub-article to Muslim scientists and a parallel article to Islamic astronomy.
A Muslim astronomer is an astronomer who professes Islam and/or is engaged in Islamic astronomy.
List[edit]
- Khalid ibn Yazid (Calif)
- Jafar al-Sadiq
- Yaqūb ibn Tāriq
- Ibrahim al-Fazari
- Muhammad al-Fazari
- Mashallah ibn Athari
- Naubakht
- Abu Hanifa Dinawari
- Al-Khwarizmi, also a mathematician
- Abu Maʿshar (Albumasar)
- Al-Farghani
- Banū Mūsā (Ben Mousa)
- Thābit ibn Qurra (Thebit)
- Sind ibn Ali
- Al-Majriti
- Al-Battani (Albatenius)
- Al-Farabi (Abunaser)
- Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi
- Abu Sa'id Gorgani
- Kushyar ibn Labban
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin
- Al-Mahani
- Al-Marwazi
- Al-Nayrizi
- Al-Saghani
- Al-Farghani
- Brethren of Purity
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (Kuhi)
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi
- Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī
- Ibn Yunus
- Abu Nasr Mansur
- Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen)
- Al-Biruni
- Avicenna
- Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel)
- Omar Khayyám
- Al-Khazini
- Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
- Ibn Tufail (Abubacer)
- Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi (Alpetragius)
- Averroes
- Al-Jazari
- Anvari
- Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī
- Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
- Ibn al-Shatir
- Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī
- Ulugh Beg, also a mathematician
- Ali Qushji, also a mathematician and philosopher
- Al-Birjandi
- Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Ottoman astronomer
- Ahmad Nahavandi
- Ahmad Khani
- Haly Abenragel
- Abolfadl Harawi
- Kerim Kerimov, a founder of the Soviet space program and a lead architect behind the first human spaceflight (Vostok 1) and space stations (Salyut and Mir)
- Farouk El-Baz, a NASA scientist involved in the first Moon landings with the Apollo program
- Abdul Kalam
- Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Muhammed Faris
- Abdul Ahad Mohmand
- Talgat Musabayev
- Anousheh Ansari
- Amir Ansari
- Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
- CM Abdulla Moulavi
- Mariam al-Asturlabi
- Dr. Saleh M. Al-Ojairi[1]
References[edit]
- Hill, Donald Routledge, Islamic Science And Engineering, Edinburgh University Press (1993), ISBN 0-7486-0455-3 Search this book on
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See also[edit]
- List of astrologers
- Islamic astronomy
- List of Muslim scholars
- List of people by belief
- List of Muslims
- List of Iranian scientists
- Golden Age of Islam
- Islamic astrology
- Arab and Persian astrology
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