At a glance
- Roles
- Astronomer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Ishaq Nur al-Din al-Bitruji, one of the greatest Arab astronomers. He was of Andalusian origin, from the town of Bedroche near Cordoba, and was alive in the sixth century AH. 1
The museum's data do not record his dates of birth or death, nor the titles of his works or his teachers, and need an additional source.
People and things also explored
Sharaf al-Dawla's observatory at Baghdad· Qibla-finding by stars, winds, mountains and rivers· Sizes of the heavenly bodies· Distances of the heavenly bodies from the Earth· The seven climates· The second motion (the planets' own motion along the zodiac)· The first motion (diurnal rotation of the heavens)· The solstices
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Bitruji Abu Ishaq Nur al-Din”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-bitruji-abu-ishaq-nur-al-din/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.