Abolfadl Harawi ( fa, ابو الفضل هروى) was a 10th-century
astronomer
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who, along with
al-Khujandi
Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr al-Khojandi (known as Abu Mahmood Khojandi, Alkhujandi or al-Khujandi, Persian: ابومحمود خجندی, c. 940 - 1000) was a Muslim Transoxanian astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand (now part of Tajikista ...
, studied under the patronage of the
Buyid
The Buyid dynasty ( fa, آل بویه, Āl-e Būya), also spelled Buwayhid ( ar, البويهية, Al-Buwayhiyyah), was a Shia Islam, Shia Iranian peoples, Iranian dynasty of Daylamites, Daylamite origin, which mainly ruled over Iraq and central ...
dynasty in
Rey,
Persia
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. The
nisba
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* Arabic nouns and adjectives#Nisba, Nisba, a suffix used to form adjectives in Arabic grammar, or the adjective resulting from this formation
**c ...
"Harawi" suggests that he was originally from
Herat
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, in ancient times also known als "''Haraiva"''.
See also
*
List of Iranian scientists
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People from Ray, Iran
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10th-century Iranian astronomers
Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world
Scholars under the Buyid dynasty
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