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  Astronomy Andalusian Astronomy in the Eleventh Century [long_description] Ibn al-Zarqālluh has been long established as the most important astronomer of the Islamic West. Working in the Iberian Peninsula in the eleventh century, he generated ideas that proved extremely influential not only for astronomers in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, but also in Europe, where his work was passed on in Latin and Romance translations.

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  Astronomy The First Golden Age of Islamic Science [long_description] One of the most significant figures in the Islamic Golden Age was the polymath and scholar Al-Bīrūnī. Julio Samsó provides an account of Al-Bīrūnī’s life and his work on astronomy and mathematics.

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