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Medieval Islamic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age (9th–13th centuries), and mostly written in the Arabic language. These developments mostly took place in the Middle East, Central Asia, Al-Andalus, and North Africa, and later in the Far East and India.
Achievements that advanced Islamic and Western science came from al-Andalus, including major advances in trigonometry (Jabir ibn Aflah), astronomy , surgery , pharmacology , [9] and agronomy (Ibn Bassal and Abu'l-Khayr al-Ishbili). Al-Andalus became a conduit for cultural and scientific exchange between the Islamic and Christian worlds.
Art from Toledo in Al-Andalus depicting the Alcázar in the year 976.AD. He was trained as a metalsmith and due to his skills he was nicknamed Al-Nekkach "the engraver of metals". His Latinized name, 'Arzachel' is formed from the Arabic al-Zarqali al-Naqqash, meaning 'the engraver'. [4] He was particularly talented in geometry and astronomy.
Nūr al-Dīn ibn Isḥaq al-Biṭrūjī (Arabic: نور الدين ابن إسحاق البطروجي, died c. 1204), known in the West by the Latinized name of Alpetragius, was an Arab [2] [3] astronomer and qadi in al-Andalus. [4] Al-Biṭrūjī was the first astronomer to present the concentric spheres model as an alternative to the ...
He edited and made changes to the parts of the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity when it arrived in al-Andalus. [8] [9] Al-Majrīṭī also predicted a futuristic process of scientific interchange and the advent of networks for scientific communication. He built a school of Astronomy and Mathematics and marked the beginning of organized ...
A Christian and a Muslim playing chess, illustration from the Book of Games of Alfonso X (c. 1285). [1]During the High Middle Ages, the Islamic world was an important contributor to the global cultural scene, innovating and supplying information and ideas to Europe, via Al-Andalus, Sicily and the Crusader kingdoms in the Levant.
Abu al‐Qasim Ahmad ibn Abd Allah ibn Umar al‐Ghafiqī ibn as-Saffar al‐Andalusi (born in Cordoba, died in the year 1035 at Denia), also known as Ibn as-Saffar (Arabic: ابن الصَّفَّار, literally: son of the brass worker), was a Spanish-Arab [1] astronomer in Al-Andalus.
Alī ibn Khalaf (Arabic: علي بن خلف الأندلسي) was an Andalusian astronomer [1] who belonged to the scientific circle of Ṣāʿid al- Andalusī. [2] He devised, with help from al-Zarqali, the universal astrolabe. [3] Both Khalaf and al-Zarqali's design were included in the Libros del Saber (1227) of Alfonso X of Castile. [4]