Maslamah ibn Aḥmad Majrīṭī (950–1007)

Born 950 CE, died 1007 CE.

Abu al-Qasim Maslama ibn Ahmad al-Majriti (Arabic: أبو القاسم مسلمة بن أحمد المجريطي: c. 950–1007), known in European Latin-language sources as Methilem, was a Muslim Arab astronomer, alchemist, mathematician, economist and scholar in al-Andalus, active during the reign of Al-Hakam II. His full name is Abu 'l-Qāsim Maslama ibn Aḥmad al-Faraḍī al-Ḥāsib al-Maj̲rīṭī al-Qurṭubī al-Andalusī.

Text from the Wikipedia article Maslama_al-Majriti, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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