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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]
Islamic Art. Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars) of al-Sufi. Author `Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi Iranian. late 15th century. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 453.
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, known in the West as Azophi, was one of the two most outstanding practical astronomers of the Middle Ages. Al-Sufi was the first astronomer to describe the 'nebulosity' of the nebula in Andromeda in his book of constellations (atlas of heavens).
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.
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.
