translator · scholar

al-Fazari

fl. 770s, Baghdad

Astronomer at al-Mansur's court who, with Yaqub ibn Tariq, turned the Sanskrit astronomy brought by an Indian embassy into the Arabic Zij al-Sindhind. Medieval biographers split him into a father and son; modern scholarship reads the reports as one man, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari.

Crossings

c. 771–775 Brahmasphutasiddhanta , Sanskrit Arabic · translator · Baghdad probable

Sources

Pingree, David (1970). The Fragments of the Works of al-Fazari.
Hockey, Thomas et al. (eds.) (2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (entries: Fazari, Khwarizmi, Majriti, Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar).