Fakhr al-Din al-Akhlati (Kurdish: Fexredînê Exlatî, Fakhr al-Din al-Kurdi al-Akhlati; Arabic: فخر الدين الأخلاتي; flourished c. 1260), was a Kurdish and Islamic astronomer from Anatolia, who worked at the Maragha observatory.[1][2] He was one of the first elites that the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi recruited to work in there. Al-Akhlati's life was in a period contemporaneous with the fall of Baghdad at the hands of the Mongols in 1258.[3]
Fakhr al-Din al-Akhlati | |
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فخر الدين الأخلاتي | |
| Born | fl. c. 1260 |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Main interests | Astronomy |
References
edit- ^ Micheau 1996, p. 1003.
- ^ Adak, Abdurrahman (2022-09-18). Destpêka Edebiyata Kurdî ya Klasîk (in Kurdish). Pak Ajans Yayincilik Turizm Ve Diş Ticaret Limited şirketi. ISBN 978-605-5053-04-8.
- ^ Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World, P72. PDF document
Sources
edit- Micheau, François (1996). "The Scientific Institutions in the Medieval Near East". In Rashed, Roshdi (ed.). Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science: Technology, Alchemy and Life Sciences. Vol. 3. Routledge. ISBN 978-04151-2-412-6.
Further reading
edit- Blake, Stephen P. (2016). Astronomy and Astrology in the Islamic World. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-07486-4-911-2.
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