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Jamal al-Din (astronomer)

fl. 1255–1291 · 13th century · Also known as Jamāl al-Dīn al-Bukhārī

Jamal al-Din was a Persian astronomer who served the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. In 1267 he presented a calendar and a set of astronomical instruments, including an armillary sphere and a celestial globe, to the court, and he later headed the Islamic astronomical observatory in Yuan China, carrying Islamic astronomy east.

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