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Roles: Astronomer · mathematician
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region: Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Ibrahim Ibn al-Qalqashandi · Shihab al-Din Ibn Hajji al-Hisbani · Burhan al-Din Ibn Abi Sharif al-Maqdisi · Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sijilmasi

Mathematics Astronomy and timekeeping

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Overview

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Tizini al-Halabi al-Hanafi, an astronomer and mathematician from Aleppo, attributed to the town of Tizin near Aleppo. He was born in 828 AH (1424 CE) and died in 911 AH (1505 CE). ¹

People and things also explored

Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad· Al-Badi' al-Astarlabi· al-Khujandi Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr· al-Khwarizmi· al-Nayrizi· Hassan al-Jabarti· Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad· Ibn al-Ha'im al-Ishbili

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.745

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