Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari

Type Figure Region Persia Time 750–790 Also known as 法扎里、Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari、al-Fazari

8th-century Persian-origin Muslim astronomer in Abbasid Baghdad, a pioneering figure in Islamic astronomical instruments, the astrolabe, and calendri…

Timeline

730–760Persia · PersiaAl-Fazari came from a Persian Muslim astronomical family; his father Ibrahim al-Fazari was also a famous astronomer, and this family learning gave him early contact with Indian and Persian astronomical traditions.
c. 770–790Baghdad · BaghdadIn Baghdad he took part in astronomical observation and instrument development; according to written records he made an early Islamic astrolabe and participated in translating the Indian Sanskrit astronomical work Fanganjia into Arabic, advancing the development of the Islamic calendar and astronomy.

Sources

Encyclopaedia of Islam: al-Fazārī https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/
Islamic Astronomy and Medieval Europe — David A. King (1986)