al-Khujandi Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr · Islam Museum

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At a glance

Roles: mathematician · Astronomer
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 · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · القاضي أبو بكر ابن الدقاق البغدادي · أبو بكر ابن لال الهمداني · أبو العلاء المعري

Mathematics Astronomy and timekeeping

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موجز

أبو محمود حامد بن الخضر الخجندي، رياضي وفلكي اشتهر في القرن الرابع الهجري. كان من سكان مدينة الري جنوب شرق طهران، وتوفي سنة 391هـ (1000م)، بحسب «موسوعة أعلام العلماء والأدباء». ¹

People and things also explored

Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad· Al-Badi' al-Astarlabi· al-Khwarizmi· al-Tizini Muhammad ibn Muhammad· Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad· Ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani, Muhammad· Kushyar ibn Labban al-Jili· Umar Khayyam

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.