Ahmad Nahavandi
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Life
Al-Nahawandi lived and worked at the Academy of Gundishapur, in Khuzestan, Iran, at the time of Yahya ibn Khalid ibn Barmak, the provincial governor and all-powerful long-time vizier to Caliph Harun al-Rashid. Al-Nahawandi is reported to have been making astronomical observations at the academy in around 800.Template:Sfn He and the astronomer and mathematician Mashallah ibn Athari were among the earliest Islamic era astronomers who flourished during the reign of al-Mansur, the second Abbasid caliph.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Works
Al-Nahawandi compiled zijes (astronomical tables) under the title Script error: No such module "lang"..Template:Sfn
References
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Further reading
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