al-Battānī
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(his full name is Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad e. Ḏj̲ābir b. Sinān al-Battānī al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ), the Albategni or Albatenius of our mediaeval authors, one of the greatest of Arab astronomers, was born before 244 (858) very probably at Ḥarrān or in its neighbourhood; the origin of the nisba al-Battānī is quite uncertain. His family formerly professed the Sabian religion, whence the name al-Ṣābiʾ although our author was a Muslim. He spent almost his whole life at al-Raḳḳa on the left bank of the Euphrates, where several families from Ḥarrān had taken up their abode; from 264 (877) he devoted himself to astronomical observations which he regularly pursued for the rest of his life. Having had occasion to go on business to Bag̲h̲dād he died on his return journey at Ḳaṣr al-Ḏj̲iṣṣ, a little to the east of the Tigris and not for from Sāmarrā in 317 (929).
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al-Battānī
in Encyclopaedia of Islam First Edition OnlineSearch for other papers by C. A. Nallino in
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Google Scholar
(832 words)