At a glance
- Roles
- Astronomer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- Anatolia
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Jaghmini, an astronomer, one of the leading figures of scientific progress in Asia Minor within Islamic civilisation. He is attributed to the village of Jaghmin. He was born in 549 AH (1154 CE) and died in 618 AH (1220 CE). 1
Both dates rest on one source 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 , p.332
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Jaghmini Mahmud ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-jaghmini-mahmud-ibn-muhammad-ibn-umar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.