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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.
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.
The astronomer Nur Ed-Din Al-Bitruji was also a disciple of Ibn Tufayl. Al-Bitruji was influenced by him to follow the Aristotelian system of astronomy, as he had originally followed the Ptolemaic system of astronomy. [9] His work in astronomy was historically significant as he played a major role in overturning the Ptolemaic ideas on astronomy ...
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.
Ziryab moved from Baghdad to al-Andalus, where he set up a school of music and was one of the first to add a fifth string or course to oud, "between 822 and 852). [157] Al-Andalus, where he settled would become a center of musical instrument development for Europe. Al-Kindi was a polymath who wrote as many as 15 music-related treatises.
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]