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scientists in medieval Islamic world

Sind ibn Ali

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Sanad ibn Ali
Wafat	after 864 AD
Occupation	Astronomer, translator, mathematician, engineer
Notable work	Zij al-Sindhind, Decimal mark
Parent(s)	Ali-Musa (father)

Abu al-Tayyib Sanad ibn Ali al-Yahudi (died c. 864 C.E.),^[1] was an eighth-century Iraqi Jewish, astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer employed at the court of the Abbasid caliph Al-Ma'mun. A later convert to Islam, Sanad's father was a learned Jewish astronomer who lived and worked in Baghdad.

Ali Qushji

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Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed
astronomer, mathematician, physicist, scientist and mutakallim (Muslim theologian)
Born	1403 Samarkand
Died	16 December 1474 Constantinople
Other names	Ali Kuşçu (Ali Qushji)

Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed (1403 – 16 December 1474), known as Ali Qushji wasan astronomer, mathematician and physicist originally from Samarkand, who settled in the Ottoman Empire some time before 1472. As a disciple of Ulugh Beg, he is best known for the development of astronomical physics independent from natural philosophy, and for providing empirical evidence for the Earth's rotation in his treatise, Concerning the Supposed Dependence of Astronomy upon Philosophy.

Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī

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Ibrahim al-Fazari
Died	160 AH/ 777 AD Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq
Occupation	Mathematician
Era	Islamic Golden Age

Ibrahim al-Fazari (died 777 CE) was an 8th-century Muslim mathematician and astronomer at the Abbasid court of the Caliph Al-Mansur (r. 754–775). He should not to be confused with his son Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, also an astronomer. He composed various astronomical writings ("on the astrolabe", "on the armillary spheres", "on the calendar").

Al-Farghani

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Al-Farghānī
The statue of al-Farghani in Cairo, Egypt
Born	9th century Farg'ona, Sogdia[1]
Died	9th century

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī. (800/805-870) also known as Alfraganus in the West, was a astronomer in the Abbasid court in Baghdad, and one of the most famous astronomers in the 9th century. The lunar crater Alfraganus is named after him.

Life

He was involved in the calculation of the diameter of the Earth by the measurement of the meridian arc length, together with a team of scientists under the patronage of the ʿAbbāsid caliph al-Ma'mūn in Baghdad. 

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Born	7 December, 903 Rey, Buyid Persia
Died	25 May, 986 (aged 83) Shiraz, Buyid Persia
Occupation	Astronomer

'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Persian: ‎ (December 7, 903 in Rey, Iran – May 25, 986 in Shiraz, Iran) was a Persian astronomer also known as 'Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi, 'Abd al-Rahman Abu al-Husayn, 'Abdul Rahman Sufi, or 'Abdurrahman Sufi and, historically, in the West as Azophi and Azophi Arabus.The lunar crater Azophi and the minor planet 12621 Alsufi are named after him. Al-Sufi published his famous Book of Fixed Stars in 964, describing much of his work, both in textual descriptions and pictures. Al-Biruni reports that his work on the ecliptic was carried out in Shiraz. He lived at the Buyid court in Isfahan.