Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
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Name (Latin)
Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
Name (Arabic)
الصوفي، عبد الرحمن بن عمر، 903-986
Other forms of name
al-Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
Rāzī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Ṣūfī, 903-986
ʻAbd al-Raḥman ibn ʻUmar al-Rāzī, 903-986
Rāzī, 903-986
Ṣūfī, 903-986
Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 903-986
ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī, 903-986
Ṣufī, Abduʼr-Rahman, 903-986
Abduʼr-Rahman aṣ-Ṣufī, 903-986
Sufi, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Umar, 903-986
صوفي، عبد الرحمن بن عمر، 903-986
الرازي، عبد الرحمن بن عمر، 903-986
عبد الرحمن بن عمر الصوفي، 903-986
عبد الرحمن بن عمر الرازي، 903-986
Date of birth
0903
Date of death
0986
Gender
male
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- His Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ... 1953.
- His Kitāb Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniyah wa-al-arbaʻīn, 1981:
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Wikipedia description:
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī (Persian: عبدالرحمن الصوفی; 7 December 903 – 25 May 986) was a Persian astronomer. His work Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ("The Book of Fixed Stars"), written in 964, included both textual descriptions and illustrations. The Persian polymath Al-Biruni wrote that al-Ṣūfī's work on the ecliptic was carried out in Shiraz. Al-Ṣūfī lived at the Buyid court in Isfahan.
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