Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world

Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

Timurid sultan, astronomer and mathematician (1394–1449)

Persian astronomer (1201–1274)

Persian astronomer (903-986)

Anvari (1126–1189), full name '''Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mohammad Khavarani or Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mahmud''' () was a Persian poet.

Persian philosopher and scientist

Abū al-Fath Abd al-Rahman Mansūr al-Khāzini or simply al-Khāzini (; flourished 1115–1130) was an Iranian astronomer, mechanician and physicist of Byzantine Greek origin who lived during the Seljuk Empire. His astronomical tables, written under the patronage of Sultan Sanjar ('''', 1115), are considered to be one of the major works in mathematical astronomy of the medieval period. He is considered to have been one of the greatest scientists of his era, among the greatest makers of scientific instruments of any time, and as "the physicist of all physicists".

10th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician

10th century Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer

Persian astronomer and mathematician

Persian mathematician and astronomer (c. 960 – 1036)

Medieval Arab scholar

Persian mathematician and astronomer

Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physician

thumb|190px|Model of the Solar System and Earth movement ("planetarium") according to al-Sijzi '''Abu Sa'id Ahmed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd al-Jalil al-Sijzi (c. 945 - c. 1020, also known as al-Sinjari and al-Sijazi; ; Al-Sijzi''' is short for "Al-Sijistani") was an Iranian Muslim astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. He is notable for his correspondence with al-Biruni and for proposing that the Earth rotates around its axis in the 10th century.

Persian mathematician, geographer, and astronomer (971–1029)

Medieval astronomer and mathematician

Persian mathematician and astronomer

9th century astronomer and researcher

Khorasani writer and Islamic jurist

astronomer

9th century Syriac astronomer and mathematician (c. 786 - c. 845)

Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar al-Isfazārī (; fl. late 11th or early 12th century) was an Islamic mathematician, astronomer and engineer from Khurasan. According to the historian and geographer Ibn al-Athir and the polymath Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, he worked in the Seljuq observatory of Isfahan. The Persian writer Nezami Aruzi met him in Balkh in (in present-day Afghanistan) in 1112 or 1113.

Iranian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher

Iranian mathematician and astronomer

thumb|right|260px|A manuscript of ''al-Mulakhkhas fi al-hay'ah'' written in Arabic by al-Jaghmini (from a private collection).

thumb|Note of Guillaume Postel on the Arabic astronomical manuscript of al-Kharaqī, Muntahā al-idrāk fī taqāsīm al-aflāk ("The Ultimate Grasp of the Divisions of Spheres"). '''Abū Muḥammad 'Abd al-Jabbār al-Kharaqī, also Al-Kharaqī' (1084-1158) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician of the 12th century, born in Kharaq near Merv. He was in the service of Sultan Sanjar at the Persian Court. Al-Kharaqī challenged the astronomical theory of Ptolemy in the Almagest, and established an alternative theory of the spheres, imagining huge material spheres in which the planets moved inside tubes. He

medieval Persian astronomer

15th-century Egyptian astronomer

third Rasulid sultan (1242–1296)

Spanish linguist and astronomer

Iranian astronomer

Persian mathematician and astronomer

astronomer

Iranian mathematician and astronomer

Prominent Muslim astronomer

astronomer

13th century Ifriqiyian astronomer

persian mathematician and astronomer

astronomer