Al-Biruni, Muhammad ibn Ahmad

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Roles: Scientist · Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region: Persia & Central Asia
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Life in time

Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Al-Ifliili, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad · Abu Nu'aym al-Asbahani, Ahmad ibn Abd Allah · Al-Barqani, Ahmad ibn Muhammad · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Ibn Sina (Avicenna)

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People and things also explored

Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad· Al-Abhari, Athir al-Din al-Mufaddal ibn Umar· Al-Badi' al-Astarlabi· Al-Bakri, Abu Ubayd Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Aziz· Al-Idrisi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah· Al-Istakhri, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad· Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad· Piri Reis, Ahmad ibn Muhyi al-Din

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

One of the leading Muslim scholars of mathematics and astronomy, born in Buzjan in Khurasan.