Farghānī ( fa, فرغانی, meaning ''from Farghāna''), or ''Al-Farghani'' is a common surname in

Central Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...

and Western Asia and was a common nisbat in the medieval Islamic world. It may refer to the following: *

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī ( ar, أبو العبّاس أحمد بن محمد بن كثير الفرغاني 798/800/805–870), also known as Alfraganus in the West, was an astronomer in the Abbasid court ...

, also known as Alfraganus, a 9th-century astronomer * Rustum ibn Bardu al-Farghani, 10th-century Abbasid commander and governor of Tarsus * Siraj al-Din al-Ushi al-Farghani, 12th century Hanafi-Maturidi scholar * Sayf-i Farghānī, a 13th-century Persian poet *

Sa'id al-Din Farghani Sa'id al-Din Farghani ( fa, سعیدالدین فرقانی; 1231 – 1300) was a Persian Sufi mystic and scholar, who is known to have composed three works. Farghani was born in 1231 in Kashan, a town located in the Farghana Valley. Although the ...

, a 13th-century Sufi author * Abu Abdullah b. Ahmad b. Ja'far al-Farghani, the student of al-Tabari who wrote the appendix, ''al-Sila'', to ''

History of the Prophets and Kings The ''History of the Prophets and Kings'' ( ar, تاريخ الرسل والملوك ''Tārīkh al-Rusul wa al-Mulūk''), more commonly known as ''Tarikh al-Tabari'' () or ''Tarikh-i Tabari'' or ''The History of al-Tabari '' ( fa, تاریخ طب� ...

''.

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