Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Sūfī (Persian: عبدالرحمن صوفی; 7 December 903 – 25 May 986) was an Iranian astronomer. His work Kitāb suwar al-kawākib ("The Book of Fixed Stars"), written in 964, included both textual descriptions and illustrations. The Persian polymath Al-Biruni wrote that al-Sūfī's work on the ecliptic was carried out in Shiraz. Al-Sūfī lived at the Buyid court in Isfahan.
ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Sūfī | |
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عبدالرحمن صوفی | |
Al-Sūfī, as depicted in Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Imagines coeli septentrionales cum duodecim imaginibus zodiaci [The Northern Celestial Hemisphere with the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac] (1515) | |
| Born | December 7, 903 |
| Died | May 25, 986 (aged 82) |
| Occupation(s) | Astronomer, mathematician |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Notable work | Kitāb suwar al-kawākib ("The Book of Fixed Stars") |
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