Jamal ad-Din (astronomer)

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Jamal ad-Din (astronomer)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese:	扎馬魯丁[1]
Transliterations Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin: Zhámălúdīng
Persian name
Persian:	جمال الدين محمد بن طاهر بن محمد الزيدي البخاري

Jamal ad-Din Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al‐Zaydī al‐Bukhārī (variously transcribed Jamal ud-Din, Jamal al-Din, etc.) was a 13th-century Persian-speaking Muslim astronomer. Originally from Bukhara, he entered the service of Kublai Khan around the 1250s.^[2] He is credited with having given seven astronomical instruments to Kublai Khan, including a Persian globe and an armillary sphere, in 1267.^[3]

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• Islam in China

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• van Dalen, Benno (2007), "Zhamaluding: Jamāl al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad al‐Zaydī al‐Bukhārī", in Hockey, Thomas, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer Reference, New York: Springer, pp. 1262-1263, http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Zhamaluding_BEA.htm, retrieved on 2009-03-10 
• Zhu, Siben; Fuchs, Walter (1946), The "Mongol Atlas" of China, Taipei: Fu Jen Catholic University