Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī | |
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عبدالرحمن الصوفي | |
Al-Ṣūfī, as depicted in Albrecht Dürer's woodcut Imagines coeli septentrionales cum duodecim imaginibus zodiaci [The Northern Celestial Hemisphere with the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac] (1515) | |
| Born | 7 December 903 |
| Died | 25 May 986 (aged 82) |
| Occupations | Astronomer, mathematician |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Notable work | Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib ("The Book of Fixed Stars") |
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.