Ali ibn Yunus
علي بن يونس المنجم
1009 CE · 399 AH
Ali b. Yunus al-Sadafi (d. 399) — Egypt's great astronomer; al-Aziz commissioned his Hakimi Zij, which Ibn Khallikan saw in four volumes as the longest zij he knew; the famous anecdote of him carrying his shoe into al-Hakim's presence 1.
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At a glance
- Roles
- Astronomer · Poet
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Review
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Life in time
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Sources
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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