Background
He is not to be confused with his father Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, also an astronomer and mathematician.
Astronomer linguist mathematician philosopher translator
He is not to be confused with his father Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, also an astronomer and mathematician.
Some sources refer to him as an Arab, other sources state that he was a Persian. First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Fazārī translated many scientific books into Arabic and Persian. He is credited to have built the first astrolabe in the Islamic world.
Along with Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq and his father he helped translate the Indian astronomical text by Brahmagupta (fl 7th century), the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta, into Arabic as Az-Zīj ‛alā Sinī al-‛Arab., or the Sindhind.