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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

met al-Biruni (a famous scientist and astronomer), Abu Nasr Mansur (a renowned mathematician), Abu Sahl 'Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi (a respected philosopher)...

other Islamic scholars, notably by Persian scientists Al-Biruni and Abu Nasr Mansur. Christians (particularly Nestorian Christians) contributed to the...

Abū Rayḥān: viii. Indology". Encyclopædia Iranica. MacKenzie, D. N. (2000). "Chorasmia: iii. The Chorasmian Language". Encyclopædia Iranica. Nasr, Seyyed...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

figures, such as the philosophers Avicenna and Abu Sahl al-Masihi, the mathematician Abu Nasr Mansur, the physician Ibn al-Khammar, and the philologist...

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...

Mansuriyya means "the victorious", after its founder Ismāʿīl Abu Tahir Ismail Billah, called al-Mansur, "the victor." Lester, Toby (1 January 1999). "What Is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Alkhujandi. (The three others are Abul Wafa Bozjani, Nasiruddin Tusi, and Abu Nasr Mansur). Razvi, Syed Abbas Hasan (1991) A history of science, technology,...

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...

Fatimid caliph (b. 1005) August 25 – Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne Abu Nasr Mansur, Persian mathematician (b. 960) Alric of Asti (or Adalric), Lombard...

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...