al-Balkhi Abu Ma'shar Ja'far ibn Muhammad
البلخي أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد
886 CE · 272 AH
Astrologer and astronomer Abu Ma'shar Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Balkhi, leading figure of his time in his field, of Balkh in Khurasan; died 272 AH (886 CE).
At a glance
- Roles
- Astronomer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
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موجز
أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد بن عمر البلخي منجم وفلكي، نسبته إلى بلخ في خراسان. تصفه الموسوعة بأنه إمام وقته في فنه، وتذكر وفاته سنة 272هـ (886م). 1
People and things also explored
Qibla-finding by stars, winds, mountains and rivers· The seven climates· The earth's sphericity· The moon's night-litany· The planets' reign and the world's cycles· Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad· Al-Abhari, Athir al-Din al-Mufaddal ibn Umar· Al-Badi' al-Astarlabi
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO, p.34-35
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