astronomer. He is well known for his work with the spherical sine law. Abu Nasr Mansur was born in Gilan, Persia, to the ruling family of Khwarezm, the Afrighids...
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Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (Arabic: أبو منصور الماتريدي, romanized: ʾAbū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī; 853–944) was an sufiyyah scholar and theologian who is the eponym...
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Abu Nasr Ahmad ibn Fadl Abu Nasr Khusrau Firuz or Al-Malik al-Rahim Abu Nasr Mansur, Muslim mathematician Abu Nasr Muhammad Abu Nasr Mushkan Abu Nasr...
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distinguished scientists Abū Sahl al-Qūhī and al-Sijzi who were in Baghdad at the time and others such as Abu Nasr Mansur, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Kushyar...
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first, or whether Abu Nasr Mansur, Abul Wafa or Nasir al-Din al-Tusi discovered it first. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn...
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Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Moshkan (Persian: ابو نصر منصور بن مُشكان), better simply known as Abu Nasr Moshkan (ابو نصر مُشكان), was a Persian statesman who...
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Avicenna (redirect from Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina)
met al-Biruni (a famous scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Mansur (a renowned mathematician), Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi (a respected philosopher)...
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is victorious", from the Arabic root naṣr (نصر), meaning "victory." The first known bearer of the name was Mansur ibn Sarjun, Byzantine governor of Damascus...
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other Islamic scholars, notably by Persian scientists Al-Biruni and Abu Nasr Mansur. Christians (particularly Nestorian Christians) contributed to the...
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Al-Biruni (redirect from Abu ‘l-Rayhan al-Biruni)
Abū Rayḥān: viii. Indology". Encyclopædia Iranica. MacKenzie, D. N. (2000). "Chorasmia: iii. The Chorasmian Language". Encyclopædia Iranica. Nasr, Seyyed...
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century) Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (d. 1000) Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi (d. 1000) Al-Majriti (d. 1007) Ibn Yunus (d. 1009) Kushyar ibn Labban (d. 1029) Abu Nasr Mansur (d...
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century. It is variously attributed to Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and Abu Nasr Mansur. Ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī's The book...
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al-Hakimi al-Kabir in Cairo in c. 1000), Abu Sahl al-Quhi (Kuhi), Abu-Mahmud Khujandi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Ali...
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or suspected to be incompatible with Islam. Biruni and his teacher Abu Nasr Mansur had studied earlier Indian texts on mathematics, such as the Sindhind...
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Abu Salih Mansur (died 915) was a Samanid prince, who served as governor during the reign of his uncle Isma'il ibn Ahmad, his cousin Ahmad Samani, and...
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Abbasid caliphate in 750. Wary of Abu Muslim's rising influence and popularity, the second Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur, ordered his death. He was executed...
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ruler Nasr II (r. 914-943) appointed the Muhtajid prince Abu 'Ali Chaghani as the governor of Khurasan, Abu Mansur ruled Tus on behalf of Abu 'Ali until...
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in 944. Abu Yazid conquered Kairouan for a time, but was eventually driven back and defeated by the Fatimid caliph al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah. Abu Yazid's...
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figures, such as the philosophers Avicenna and Abu Sahl al-Masihi, the mathematician Abu Nasr Mansur, the physician Ibn al-Khammar, and the philologist...
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Abu Tahir Isma'il (Arabic: أبو طاهر إسماعيل, romanized: Abū Ṭāhir ʾIsmāʿīl; January 914 – 18 March 953), better known by his regnal name al-Mansur Billah...
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Mansuriyya means "the victorious", after its founder Ismāʿīl Abu Tahir Ismail Billah, called al-Mansur, "the victor." Lester, Toby (1 January 1999). "What Is...
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Alkhujandi. (The three others are Abul Wafa Bozjani, Nasiruddin Tusi, and Abu Nasr Mansur). Razvi, Syed Abbas Hasan (1991) A history of science, technology,...
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Marwanids (Diyar Bakr) (redirect from Nasr al-Dawla Ahmad ibn Marwan)
killed in Amid (Diyarbakır) in 997 by rebellious inhabitants. His brother Abu Mansur Sa’id succeeded him under the name of Mumahhid al-Dawla. In 992, after...
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used as eye drops. Book for al-Mansur (Kitāb al-Manṣūrī) Al-Razi dedicated this work to his patron Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Manṣūr, the Samanid governor of Ray. It...
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to Nizam al-Mulk, Nasr's boon companion Abu Bakr al-Nakhshabi, his private secretary Abu Ash'ath, the inspector of the army Abu Mansur al-Shaghani, the...
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al-Hakimi al-Kabir in Cairo in c. 1000), Abu Sahl al-Quhi (Kuhi), Abu-Mahmud Khujandi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Ali...
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independent. His student Abu Yusuf was later appointed to the post by Caliph Harun al-Rashid. In his reply to al-Mansur, Abu Hanifa said that he was not...
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the assistance of Indian astronomers who were at the court of caliph Al-Mansur.[better source needed] Zij al-Shah was also based upon Indian astronomical...
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Fatimid caliph (b. 1005) August 25 – Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne Abu Nasr Mansur, Persian mathematician (b. 960) Alric of Asti (or Adalric), Lombard...
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Abu Nasr Husayn II was the supposed Rawadid amir (ruler) of Adharbayjan from 1001 to 1025. A son of the Rawadid amir Abu'l-Hayja Mamlan I, Abu Nasr Husayn...
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