reviser · scholar

Maslama al-Majriti مسلمة المجريطي

d. c. 1007

The leading astronomer of Umayyad Cordoba, from Madrid when Madrid was a frontier town. Around 1000 he and his pupil Ibn al-Saffar recomputed al-Khwarizmi's Baghdad tables for the meridian of Cordoba and the Islamic calendar, the version Europe would later receive.

Crossings

c. 1000 Brahmasphutasiddhanta , Arabic Arabic · reviser · Cordoba attested

Sources

Hockey, Thomas et al. (eds.) (2007). Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (entries: Fazari, Khwarizmi, Majriti, Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar).