Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–986)

Born 903 CE, died 986 CE.

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī (full name: Abū’l-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Sahl al-Ṣūfī al-Rāzī —Arabic: أَبُو الحُسَين عَبدُ اَلرَّحمَن بن عُمَر بن سَهل اَلصُّوفِي اَلرَّازِي; Persian: ابوالحسن عبدالرحمن صوفی رازی — 7 December 903 – 25 May 986) was a Persian astronomer. His work, Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ("The Book of Fixed Stars"), completed in 964, included both textual descriptions and illustrations. The Persian polymath Al-Biruni noted that al-Ṣūfī's work on the ecliptic was conducted in Shiraz. Al-Ṣūfī lived at the Buyid court in Isfahan.

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