Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
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Name (Latin)
Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
Name (Arabic)
الصوفي، عبد الرحمن بن عمر، 903-986
Other forms of name
al-Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
Rāzī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar, 903-986
ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Ṣūfī, 903-986
ʻAbd al-Raḥman ibn ʻUmar al-Rāzī, 903-986
Rāzī, 903-986
Ṣūfī, 903-986
Ṣūfī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 903-986
ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī, 903-986
Ṣufī, Abduʼr-Rahman, 903-986
Abduʼr-Rahman aṣ-Ṣufī, 903-986
Sufi, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Umar, 903-986
صوفي، عبد الرحمن بن عمر، 903-986
الرازي، عبد الرحمن بن عمر، 903-986
عبد الرحمن بن عمر الصوفي، 903-986
عبد الرحمن بن عمر الرازي، 903-986
Date of birth
0903
Date of death
0986
Associated Language
ara
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- His Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ... 1953.
- His Kitāb Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniyah wa-al-arbaʻīn, 1981:t.p. (Abū al-Ḥusayn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻUmar al-Rāzī, al-maʻrūf bi-al-Ṣūfī, d. 376 H./986 M.) added t.p., etc. (Abuʼl-Husayn ʻAbduʼr-Rahman aṣ-Ṣufī; al-Rāzī al-Ṣūfī)
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File:Al-Sufi depicted in Albrecht Dürers 'The Northern Celestial Hemisphere' (1515).jpg
Albrecht Dürer, CC BY-SA 4.0
File:Book Al Sufi.jpg
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Public domain
File:“Sign of Sagittarius” by al-Sufi in his book Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābita, calligrapher Wathiq b. ʿAli b. ʿUmar b. al-Husayn al-maʿrūf bi-Shawqi, Artuqid Mardin, 1131, TSMK, A. 3493, fol. 91b. (Topkapı Palace Museum Library).jpg
12th century artist, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī (full name, Abū’l-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Sahl al-Ṣūfī al-Rāzī —Arabic: أَبُو الحُسَين عَبدُ اَلرَّحمَن بن عُمَر بن سَهل اَلصُّوفِي اَلرَّازِي; Persian: ابوالحسن عبدالرحمن صوفی رازی — 7 December 903 – 25 May 986) was a Persian astronomer. His work Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ("The Book of Fixed Stars"), written in 964, included both textual descriptions and illustrations. The Persian polymath Al-Biruni wrote that al-Ṣūfī's work on the ecliptic was carried out in Shiraz. Al-Ṣūfī lived at the Buyid court in Isfahan.
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