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ʿAbd al-Rahmān al-Ṣūfī (full name: Abū’l-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Sahl al-Ṣūfī al-Rāzī) was one of the nine famous Muslim astronomers. [ citation needed ] He lived at the court of Emir 'Adud al-Dawla in Isfahan , and worked on translating and expanding ancient Greek astronomical works , especially the ...
- May 25, 986 (aged 82)
Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi (7 de diciembre de 903-25 de mayo de 986) fue un astrónomo de origen persa, conocido también como 'Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi, o 'Abd al-Rahman Abu al-Husain. En Occidente se lo conoce abreviadamente como Azophi. [1]
The Constellation of Scorpio The tenth-century astronomer 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (A.D. 903–986) is credited with the authorship of several important Arabic texts on the stars; he can be considered as the greatest scholar in this field from the Islamic lands.
Al-Şūfı's Book of the Fixed Stars, dating from around AD 964, is one of the most important medieval Arabic treatises on astronomy. This major work contains an extensive star catalog, which lists star co-ordinates and magnitude estimates, as well as detailed star charts.
- Ihsan Hafez, F. Richard Stephenson, Wayne Orchiston
- 2011
The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964.
- صور الكواكب الثمانية والأربعين
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi is a well-known Muslim astronomer, who is also recognized by present-day space agencies. Due to this reason, a crater in the Moon has been named after him, called “ Azophi ”. Al-Sufi’s name comes among the nine most famous Muslim astronomers who took lead to explore the sky.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi. 903-986. Arab astronomer who revised the catalogue of fixed stars established by Ptolemy and prepared an accurate map of the sky that became a standard work in the West for several centuries. Known in Europe as Azophi, al-Sufi wrote about a southern group of stars, today known as the Nebecula Major or the Greater ...
