merge Al fadl ibn Naubakht discuss Talk Naubakht Merger proposal date September 2009 Nobakht Ahvazi lang fa , or Naubakht Ahvaz also transliterated Naubakht and his sons were astrologers from Ahvaz in the present day Khuzestan Province of Iran . Nobakht was particularly famous for having led a group of astrologers who picked an auspicious electional astrology electional chart for the founding of Baghdad . His family also helped design the city. Originally Zoroastrian s, ref Islam s Contribution to Science By Husain Muzzafar, S. Muzaffar Husain, pg. 31 ref Nobakht and his sons converted to Islam and were employed as Zoroastrian Middle Persian Pahlavi translators of the Abbasid court. Sources reflist The Golden Age of Persia , by Richard Nelson Frye , p. 163. Khandan i Naubakhti , by Abbas Iqbal , Tehran , 1933, pp 2 3 & 13. Islamic Science and Engineering , by Donald Hill , p. 10. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ahvazi, Naubakht ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ahvazi, Naubakht Category Year of birth missing Category Year of death missing Category Iranian scientists Category Persian astrologers Category Persian astronomers Category Converts to Islam from Zoroastrianism Category Astronomers of the Islamic Golden Age Iran scientist stub astronomer stub Astrology stub ar ... more details
merge Naubakht discuss Talk THIS PAGE Merger proposal date September 2009 unreferenced date February 2009 Al Fadl ibn Naubakht , also written Nowbakht , was an 8th century Persian scholar at the court of the Caliph Harun al Rashid . He was son of the famous Naubakht , a former Zoroastrian, who had designed Baghdad . Fadl was appointed by the Caliph as chief librarian of the Khiz nat al Hikmah The Treasury of Knowledge , which later came to be known as The House of Wisdom . He also wrote astrological treatises, and his skills in translation were used to access Greek texts extensively. See also List of Iranian scientists Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fadl ibn Naubakht, Al ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fadl ibn Naubakht, Al Category Year of birth missing Category 8th century deaths Category Iranian scientists Category Librarians Category Persian astrologers iran scientist stub library bio stub ... more details
This is a sub article to Muslim scientists and a parallel article to Islamic astronomy . A Muslim astronomer is an astronomer that professes Islam and or is engaged in Islamic astronomy . List Calid Khalid ibn Yazid Calif Jafar al Sadiq Yaq b ibn T riq Ibrahim al Fazari Muhammad al Fazari Mashallah ibn Athari Naubakht Al Khwarizmi , also a mathematician Ja far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma shar al Balkhi Albumasar Al Farghani Ban M s Ben Mousa Ja far Muhammad ibn M s ibn Sh kir Ahmad ibn M s ibn Sh kir Al Hasan ibn M s ibn Sh kir Th bit ibn Qurra Thebit Sinan ibn Thabit Ibrahim ibn Sinan Al Majriti Muhammad ibn J bir al Harr n al Batt n Albatenius Al Farabi Abunaser Abd Al Rahman Al Sufi Abu Sa id Gorgani Kushyar ibn Labban Ab Ja far al Kh zin Al Mahani Al Marwazi Al Nayrizi Al Saghani Al Farghani Brethren of Purity Ab Sahl al Q h Kuhi Abu Mahmud al Khujandi Ab al Waf al B zj n Ibn Yunus Abu Nasr Mansur Ibn al Haytham Alhacen Ab Rayh n al B r n Avicenna Ab Ish q Ibr h m al Zarq l Arzachel Omar Khayy m Al Khazini Ibn Bajjah Avempace Ibn Tufail Abubacer Nur Ed Din Al Betrugi Alpetragius Averroes Al Jazari Anvari Sharaf al D n al T s Mo ayyeduddin Urdi Nas r al D n al T s Nasir al Din al Tusi Ibn al Nafis Qutb al Din al Shirazi Ibn al Shatir Shams al D n al Samarqand Jamsh d al K sh Ulugh Beg , also a mathematician Al Birjandi Taqi al Din Muhammad ibn Ma ruf , Ottoman astronomer Maeriam al Ijliya al Astrulabi , one of the few female medieval Muslim astronomers known by name Ahmad Nahavandi Haly Abenragel Abolfadl Harawi Kerim Kerimov , a founder of the Soviet space program and a lead architect behind the first human spaceflight Vostok 1 and space station s Salyut and Mir Farouk El Baz , a NASA scientist involved in the first Moon landing s with the Apollo program Abdul Kalam Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Muhammed Faris Abdul Ahad Mohmand Talgat Musabayev Anousheh Ansari Amir Ansari Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Ijliya Al Astrulabi References Donald Routl ... more details
cleanup date March 2011 Image Durer astronomer.jpg thumb 250px An engraving by Albrecht D rer , from the title page of the De scientia motus orbis Latin version with engraving, 1504 . As in many medieval illustrations, the Compass drafting drafting compass here is an icon of religion as well as science, in reference to God as the architect of creation. Masha allah ibn Athar c.740 815 AD was an eighth century Persian Jews Persian Jewish ref Islam and Science , by M. H. Syed, p. 212 ref astrology astrologer and astronomy astronomer from the city of Basra now located in modern day Iraq who became the leading astrologer of the late 8th century. ref David Pingree M sh all h , Dictionary of Scientific Biography 9 1974 , 159 162. ref The Arabic phrase Masha Allah ma sha a allah indicates acceptance of what God has ordained in terms of good or ill fortune that may befall a believer. His real name was probably Manasseh or Jethro , and Latin translators named him Messahala with many variants, as Messahalla , Messala , Macellama , Macelarma , Messahalah . The crater Messala crater Messala on the Moon is named after him. Science historian Donald Hill writes that Mashallah was originally from greater Khorasan Khorasan . ref Donald R. Hill. Islamic Science and Engineering , 1994. p10. ISBN 0 7486 0457 X ref Life and works As a young man he participated in the founding of Baghdad in 762 by working with a group of astrologers led by Naubakht Naubakht the Persian to pick an electional astrology electional horoscope for the founding of the city. He wrote over twenty works on astrology, which became authoritative in later centuries at first in the Middle East, and then in the West when horoscopic astrology was transmitted back to Europe beginning in the 12th century. Mashallah wrote works on Astral sympathies , otherwise known as astrology. Of his over 20 works, few remain. Only one of his writings is still extant in its original Arabic, ref David Pingree M sh all h Greek, Pahlav , ... more details
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Islamic science Science in the Islamic world has played a significant role in the history of science . There have been hundreds of notable Muslim scientists that have made a great contribution to civilization and society. The following is an incomplete list of notable Muslim scientists . Astronomers and astrophysicists Main List of Muslim astronomers See Islamic astronomy Calid Khalid ibn Yazid Calid Jafar al Sadiq Yaq b ibn T riq Ibrahim al Fazari Muhammad al Fazari Naubakht Al Khwarizmi , mathematician Ja far ibn Muhammad Abu Ma shar al Balkhi Albumasar Al Farghani Ban M s Ben Mousa Ja far Muhammad ibn M s ibn Sh kir Ahmad ibn M s ibn Sh kir Al Hasan ibn M s ibn Sh kir Al Majriti Muhammad ibn J bir al Harr n al Batt n Albatenius Al Farabi Abunaser Abd Al Rahman Al Sufi Abu Sa id Gorgani Kushyar ibn Labban Ab Ja far al Kh zin Al Mahani Al Marwazi Al Nayrizi Al Saghani Al Farghani Abu Nasr Mansur Ab Sahl al Q h Kuhi Abu Mahmud al Khujandi Ab al Waf al B zj n Ibn Yunus Ibn al Haytham Alhacen Ab Rayh n al B r n Avicenna Ab Ish q Ibr h m al Zarq l Arzachel Omar Khayy m Al Khazini Ibn Bajjah Avempace Ibn Tufail Abubacer Nur Ed Din Al Betrugi Alpetragius Averroes Al Jazari Sharaf al D n al T s Anvari Mo ayyeduddin Urdi Nasir al Din Tusi Qutb al Din al Shirazi Ibn al Shatir Shams al D n al Samarqand Jamsh d al K sh Ulugh Beg , also a mathematician Taqi al Din Muhammad ibn Ma ruf , Ottoman astronomer Ahmad Nahavandi Haly Abenragel Abolfadl Harawi Kerim Kerimov , a founder of Soviet space program , a lead architect behind first human spaceflight Vostok 1 , and the lead architect of the first space station s Salyut and Mir ref Peter Bond, http findarticles.com p articles mi qn4158 is 20030407 ai n12692130 Obituary Lt Gen Kerim Kerimov , The Independent , 7 April 2003. ref ref Betty Blair 1995 , Behind Soviet Aeronauts , Azerbaijan International 3 3 . ref Farouk El Baz , a NASA scientist involved in the first Moon landing s with the Apollo program ref http ... more details
Please add only persons who have individual Wikipedia articles, and quote at least one source regarding the conversion for each entry. Arrange by FIRST NAME. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT AN ETHNIC GROUP, INFOBOX USED FOR DEMOGRAPHIC DATA Ethnic group group Converts to Islam image File Converts to Islam.png 280px image caption Isabelle Eberhardt Ulu Ali Reis Claude Alexandre de Bonneval Claude Alexandre Parameswara Marmaduke Pickthall Jacques Francois Menou Rowland Allanson Winn, 5th Baron Headley Lord Headley Malcolm X Samori Ture Muhammad Ali Keith Ellison politician Keith Ellison Ahmad Rashad Cat Stevens Dave Chappelle Nicolas Anelka Kareem Abdul Jabbar Murad Wilfried Hofmann Jermaine Jackson Yvonne Ridley pop In the United Kingdom and France, about 100,000 people converted in the last decade ref Dead link date September 2010 http fr.jpost.com servlet Satellite?cid 1167467792048&pagename JPArticle ShowFull Islam converts change face of Europe Jerusalem Post. Retrieved on 2010 01 22. ref , Germany usually 300 a year ref http www.ynetnews.com articles 0,7340,L 3353920,00.html Germany Sharp rise in Muslim converts Retrieved on 2010 01 25. ref and many other places around the world. The following is an incomplete list of notable people who Religious conversion Conversion to Islam converted to Islam from a different religion or no religion . This article addresses only past professions of faith by the individuals listed, and is not intended to address ethnic, cultural, or other considerations, such as marital conversion marriage . Such cases are noted in their list entries. The list is categorized alphabetically by their former religious affiliation. From Abrahamic religions From Christianity A Abdul Karim al Jabbar Sharmon Shah former NBA player ref NBA great Kareem Abdul Jabbar wants NFL player to stop using name the former Sharmon Shah, Miami Dolphin running back being sued by former basketball player Jet Online. Dec. 1, 1997. Johnson Publishing Co. ref Abdullah Be ... more details
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