Abu Said Gorgani, the Glossary
Abu Sa'id al-Dharir al-Jurjani (ابو سعيد الضرير الجرجاني), also Gurgani, was a 9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer from Gurgan, Iran.[1]
Table of Contents
12 relations: Astronomer, Cairo, Carl Brockelmann, Encyclopaedia Islamica, George Sarton, Gorgan, Ibn al-A'rabi, Iran, List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars, Mathematician, Meridian (geography), Persians.
- 845 deaths
- 9th-century Iranian astronomers
- 9th-century Iranian mathematicians
- Medieval Iranian astronomers
- Persian physicists
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.
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Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
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Carl Brockelmann
Carl Brockelmann (17 September 1868 – 6 May 1956) German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation.
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Encyclopaedia Islamica
The Encyclopaedia Islamica is an encyclopedia on Islamic and Iranian studies published by Brill, comprising a projected 16-volume translation of selected articles from the new Persian Dā'erat-ol-Ma'āref-e Bozorg-e Eslāmi (italic, "The Great Islamic Encyclopaedia"), supplemented by additional articles written in English by scholars affiliated with the Institute of Ismaili Studies.
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George Sarton
George Alfred Leon Sarton (31 August 1884 – 22 March 1956) was a Belgian-American chemist and historian.
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Gorgan
Gorgan (گرگان) is a city in the Central District of Gorgan County, Golestan province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.
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Ibn al-A'rabi
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ziyād (ابو عبد الله محمد بن زياد), surnamed Ibn al-Aʿrābī (ابن الاعرابى) (ca. 760 – 846, Sāmarrā); a philologist, genealogist, and oral traditionist of Arabic tribal poetry.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
List of pre-modern Iranian scientists and scholars
The following is a list of Persian scientists, engineers, and scholars who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age.
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Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
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Meridian (geography)
In geography and geodesy, a meridian is the locus connecting points of equal longitude, which is the angle (in degrees or other units) east or west of a given prime meridian (currently, the IERS Reference Meridian).
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Persians
The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.
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See also
845 deaths
- 42 Martyrs of Amorium
- Abu Said Gorgani
- Ammar al-Basri
- Bridei VII
- Dionysius I Telmaharoyo
- Ecgred of Lindisfarne
- Empress Dowager Wang (Jingzong)
- Ibn Sa'd
- Mislav of Croatia
- Sahl ibn Bishr
- Turgesius
9th-century Iranian astronomers
- Abu Hanifa Dinawari
- Abu Ja'far ibn Habash
- Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi
- Abu Said Gorgani
- Abu al-Abbas Iranshahri
- Abu'l-'Anbas Saymari
- Ahmad Nahavandi
- Al-Farghani
- Al-Khwarizmi
- Al-Mahani
- Al-Nayrizi
- Banū Mūsā brothers
- Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi
- Khalid ibn Abd al-Malik al-Marwarrudhi
- Mashallah ibn Athari
- Mūsā ibn Shākir
- Naubakht
- Sahl ibn Bishr
- Yahya ibn Abi Mansur
9th-century Iranian mathematicians
- Abu Hanifa Dinawari
- Abu Said Gorgani
- Abu Zayd al-Balkhi
- Abu al-Abbas Iranshahri
- Ahmad Nahavandi
- Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī
- Al-Farghani
- Al-Khwarizmi
- Al-Mahani
- Al-Nayrizi
- Banū Mūsā brothers
- Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi
- Mashallah ibn Athari
- Sahl ibn Bishr
Medieval Iranian astronomers
- Abu Said Gorgani
- Ahmad Nahavandi
Persian physicists
- Abu Said Gorgani
- Al-Khazini
- Al-Khwarizmi
- Avicenna
- Jamshid al-Kashi
- Omar Khayyam
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Said_Gorgani
Also known as Abu Sa'id Gorgani, Abu Sa'id al-Darir al-Jurajani, Abu Sa'id al-Darir al-Jurjani, Al-Jurjani, Abu Sa'id, Zarir Jurjani.