Abu al-Salt al-Andalusi
أبو الصلت الأندلسي
c. 1087 CE · 480 AH – c. 1134 CE · 529 AH
Abu al-Salt Umayya al-Dani — Andalusi physician, astronomer and poet; reached Alexandria in 489, was exiled by al-Afdal Shahanshah in 505, and wrote his astrolabe treatise, the Wajiz on astronomy, the book of simple drugs and a book of logic in captivity; died at Mahdia at the start of 529 1.
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- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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