Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ḥabīb ibn Sulaymān ibn Samura ibn Jundab al-Fazārī (d. ca. 777) was a Muslim astronomer and the first Muslim constructor of astrolabes. He was the author of many scientific works whose manuscripts are not extant, but the Arabic historians Abū’l-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Nadīm al-Warrāq al-Baghdādī (d. 993) in his Kitāb al-fihrist al-˓ulūm (Bibliography of Sciences) and Jamāl al-Dīn ˓Alī ibn al-Qifṭī (1173–1248) in his Ta˒rīkh al-ḥukamā (History of Sages) mention one mathematical and five astronomical works by al-Fazārī:
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Kitāb fī tasṭīh al-kura (Book on the Projection of a Sphere onto a Plane)
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al-Zīj ˓alā sinī al-˓arab (Astronomical Tables According to Arabic Years)
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Kitāb al-˓amal bi’l-asṭurlāb al-musaṭṭaḥ (Book on the Use of the Plane Astrolabe)
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Kitāb al-˓amal bi’l-as ṭurlābāt dhawāt al-ḥalaq (Book on the Use of Astrolabes with Rings)
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Kitāb al-miqyās li’l-zawāl (Book on the Gnomon for the Noon)
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Qaṣīda fī ˓ilm al-nujūm (Poem on the Science of Stars)
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Rosenfeld, B.A. (2015). Al-Fazārī. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_9310-2
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