Shams al-Din al-Khalili

شمس الدين الخليلي

Draft card for Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah al-Khalili, the fourteenth-century Damascus astronomer and muwaqqit who produced the famous qibla and prayer-time tables, d. 1380; the biographical entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Scholar
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
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Astronomy and timekeeping

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People and things also explored

Sharaf al-Dawla's observatory at Baghdad· Qibla-finding by stars, winds, mountains and rivers· Sizes of the heavenly bodies· Distances of the heavenly bodies from the Earth· The seven climates· The second motion (the planets' own motion along the zodiac)· The first motion (diurnal rotation of the heavens)· The solstices

Sources

  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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islam.museum contributors. “Shams al-Din al-Khalili”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/shams-al-din-al-khalili/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.

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Sharaf al-Dawla's observatory at Baghdad

The observatory the Buyid sultan Sharaf al-Dawla commissioned at Baghdad in 378: he ordered the observation of the seven planets in their courses and zodiacal transits on the model of what al-Ma'mun had done, and a well-built observing house went up at the back of the garden in Dar al-Mamlaka, its sightings written into a register drawn up by those who knew geometry.