Saturday, June 23, 2018

Top 20 Persian scholars

Al- Biruni

Al-Khwarezmi

Omar Khayyam

Ibn Sina

Al-Tabari
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Al-Tusi

Ibn Qutaybah-

Abu Zayd al-Balkhi-

Farghani

Marwazi
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Haly Abbas

Abu al-Abbas Iranshahri-

Al-Shahrastani-

Al-Karaji- 10th and 11th century Persian mathemetician in the fields of Algebra and engineering.

Rhazes
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Nasir Kushrow-  Persian traveler and scholar

Jamal ad-din- (from wikipedia)-
Jamal ad-Din Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al‐Zaydī al‐Bukhārī (variously transcribed Jamal ud-Din, Jamal al-Din (lit. Beauty of Faith), etc., Chinese name Zhamaluding) was a 13th-century Persian[2][3][4] astronomer. Originally from Bukhara, he entered the service of Kublai Khan around the 1250s to set up an Islamic Astronomical Bureau in his new capital Beijing, to operate in parallel with the traditional Chinese bureau.[5] Kublai Khan thus maintained the bureaucratic structure, but allowed Chinese observations and predictions to be checked by respected Muslim scholars.



POETS:  Rumi
Hafez
Ferdowsi
Shams Tabrizi

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OTHER:     Al-DInawari-  Unclear extraction; possibly Persian

Al-Farabi- Lived mostly in Baghdad.  Unclear extraction; possibly Persian


Ulegbeg-  More of a Timurid than a Persian

Friday, June 15, 2018

BOOK REVIEW: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SMART PEOPLE

BOOK REVIEW:  PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SMART PEOPLE

This is a book by the noted self improvement guru Steve Pavlina.  Here is his website:

 https://www.stevepavlina.com/
 

Sunday, June 10, 2018

Cross comparison of Ptolemy with Al-Khawarizmi and.....

Cross comparison of Ptolemy with:

Al-Khwarizmi (Astronomy, geography, and mathematics)

Al-Iddrissi (Cartography)-

Moorish and Andalusian astronomers and geographers-