• Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi (766 – d. after 869 in Samarra, modern Iraq) was a Persian astronomer, geographer, and mathematician from Merv in Khorasan...
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  • Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir al-Marwazī or Marvazī (Arabic: شرف الزمان طاهر المروزي; fl. 1056/57–1124/25 CE) was a physician and author of Nature of Animals...
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  • Marwazi (Persian: مروزی) or al-Marwazi (Arabic: المروزي) is a nisba meaning "from Merv", a historical city in (early Khorasan and present day Central Asia)...
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  • al-Madanī Abū Kurayb Muḥammad ibn al-‘Alā’ al-Kūfī Hanād ibn al-Sarī al-Kūfī Ibrāhīm ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Harawī Suwayd ibn Naṣr ibn Suwayd al-Marwazī Muḥammad...
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  • Abu Salih Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Yazdad al-Marwazi (Arabic: أبو صالح عبد الله بن محمد بن يزداد المروزي; died 875) was a senior Persian official of the...
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  • Ishoʿ of Merv (Syriac: Ishoʿ Maruzaya, Arabic: ʿĪsā al-Marwazī) was an East Syrian lexicographer of the 9th century AD. He was a native of Merv in the...
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    Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī al-Marwazī better known simply as Ibn Qutaybah (Arabic: ابن قتيبة, romanized: Ibn Qutaybah;...
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  • He got his name from his master (Abu‘l Husayn ‘Alī ibn Muhammad al-Khāzin al-Marwazī) who was the treasurer of Marv.: 107  The term khāzin was simply...
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    possessions in Central Asia. According to medieval Islamic authors Al-Biruni and al-Marwazi, the term Turkmen referred to the Oghuz who converted to Islam...
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    the [map] is simple". The first, incomplete Kitāb al-Masālik wa'l-Mamālik by Ja‘far ibn Ahmad al-Marwazi is now lost. The earliest surviving version was...
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  • al-Samʿānī (Arabic: إبن السمعاني, 1113–1166), full name Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Abi ʾl-Muẓaffar Manṣūr al-Tamīmī al-Marwazī al-Shafiʿī...
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  • Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Marwazi (Arabic: يوسف بن محمد بن يوسف المروزي) was a ninth century governor of Adharbayjan and Arminiyah for the Abbasid...
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  • Shemseddin Mervezi (Turkmen: Şemseddin Merwezi), also known as Shams al-Dīn al-Marwazī (1077 – c. 1139) was the court astronomer for the Seljuq sultan Ahmad...
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    the credit for this innovation to al-Marwazi. Almagest (كتاب المجسطي Kitāb al-Majisṭī). A book of zij called Zīj al-wāḍiḥ (زيج الواضح), no longer extant...
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    solution, however, first appeared in a 9th-century work by Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, which dealt with problems of parallax. The equation has played an...
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    Raqqa (redirect from Al Rakka)
    passage written by al-Tanukhi recorded a merchant from Baghdad named al-Marwazi (d. 909 or 910) who speculated in olive oil prices at Raqqa. Raqqa also...
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    philosopher Sharaf al-Zaman al-Marwazi, physician Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281–1349), geographer Mulla Sadra (1572–1640), philosopher Ibn al-Muqaffa' (?–756)...
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  • ‘Abd Allāh Nu‘aym bin Ḥammād al-Khuzā‘ī al-Marwazī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله نعيم بن حماد الخزاعي المروزي; d. 13 Jumada al-Awwal 228 AH / 18 February 843...
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  • Cilicia. Al-Nairīzī used the umbra (versa), the equivalent to the tangent, as a genuine trigonometric line, as did the Persian astronomer al-Marwazi before...
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    evidence that al-Jawad was involved in them. One such attempt against al-Jawad was prevented by one of his supporters, Ahmad ibn Hammad al-Marwazi, who was...
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    ed. ʿAṭiyya al-Zahrānī, 7 vols., Riyadh 1410/1989 Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Marwazī, Kitāb al-waraʿ, ed. Samīr b. Amīn al-Zuhayrī, Riyadh...
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    one Abu al-Khayrani by al-Jawad, who thus appointed his son Ali as his successor. Wardrop identifies this person as Ahmad ibn Hammad al-Marwazi, who was...
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    astronomers Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi and Ahmad al-Farghani, the polymath al-Jahiz, and the distinguished Arab mathematician and philosopher al-Kindi, who dedicated...
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    Oghuz without a prefixed numeral; this confusion is also reflected in al-Marwazi, who listed 12 Oghuz tribes, who were ruled by a "Toquz Khaqan" and some...
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    the 9th century, the Persian mathematician and geographer, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, employed spherical trigonometry and map projection methods in order...
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    11 – Teutberga, queen of Lotharingia 'Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Yazdad al-Marwazi, Persian official Amram Gaon, Jewish liturgist (approximate date) Donyarth...
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    Karluks, Qays, Quns, Śari, etc. who were mentioned by al-Maṣudi and Sharaf al-Zaman al-Marwazi. According to Ahmad ibn Fadlan, the Oghuz were nomads,...
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  • Nisba (onomastics) (redirect from Al Tamimi)
    Maneri - from Maner Sharif, India, e.g. Makhdoom Yahya Maneri. al-Marwazi, from Marw, Khurasan al-Rûmi – from Rûm (The Balkans and Asia Minor) Siraji, related...
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  • al-Shaybani, Emir (c. 842/844–?) Abu Sa'id Muhammad al-Marwazi, Emir (849–851) Yusuf ibn Abi Sa'id al-Marwazi, Emir (851–852) Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Shaybani...
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  • Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Shaybani (c. 842/844–?) Abu Sa'id Muhammad al-Marwazi (849–851) Yusuf ibn Abi Sa'id al-Marwazi (851–852) Bugha al-Kabir (852–855) Muhammad...
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