List of Famous people with last name Al-balkhi

Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi

First Name Abu

Last Name Al-Balkhi

Born on August 10, 0787

Died on March 9, 0886 (aged 98)

Born in Afghanistan, Balkh

Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar, was an early Persian Muslim astrologer, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the Abbasid court in Baghdad. While he was not a major innovator, his practical manuals for training astrologers profoundly influenced Muslim intellectual history and, through translations, that of western Europe and Byzantium.

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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

First Name Abu

Last Name Al-Balkhi

Born on January 1, 0850

Died on January 1, 0934 (aged 84)

Born in Afghanistan, Balkh

Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist. Born in 850 CE in Shamistiyan, in the province of Balkh, Khorasan, he was a disciple of al-Kindi. He was also the founder the "Balkhī school" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad.

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