Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar al-Isfazārī | |
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المظفر الاسفزاري | |
 Manuscript ofIrshād dhawī al-cirfān ilā ṣinācat al-qaffān | |
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| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Main interests | Mathematics,astronomy |
| Notable works | Irshād dhawī al-cirfān ilā ṣinācat al-qaffān |
Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar al-Isfazārī (Persian:ابوحاتم مظفر اسفزاری;fl. late 11th or early 12th century) was an Islamicmathematician,astronomer and engineer fromKhurasan. According to the historian and geographerIbn al-Athir and thepolymathQutb al-Din al-Shirazi, he worked in theSeljuq observatory ofIsfahan. The Persian writerNezami Aruzi met him inBalkh in (in present-day Afghanistan) in 1112 or 1113.[1]
Al-Isfazārī was a contemporary of the PersianpolymathUmar al-Khayyam and the Persian astronomerAl-Khazini. Al-Isfazārī's main surviving work,Irshād dhawī al-cirfān ilā ṣinācat al-qaffān (Guiding the Possessors of Learning in the Art of the Steelyard), sets out the theory of thesteelyard balance with unequal arms. His other surviving works include a summary ofEuclid'sElements, a text ongeometrical measurements, and a treatise inPersian onmeteorology.[1]
Al-Isfazārī's corpus ofmechanics is composed of two sets of texts, which have been published asMatn al-Muẓaffar al-Isfazārī fī cilmay al-aṯqāl wa’l-ḥiyal(Text of Al-Muzaffar Al-Isfazar in the words Al-Taql and Al-Hail) by theAl-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation.[2]
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