Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani
Born on 893
Died on 945
Abu Muhammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaqub al-Hamdani;
(279/280-333/334 A.H. / 893-945 A.D; Arabic: أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني) was an Arab Muslim geographer, chemist, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer, from the tribe of Banu Hamdan, western ‘Amran, Yemen. He was one of the best representatives of Islamic culture during the last period of the Abbasid Caliphate. His work was the subject of extensive 19th-century Austrian scholarship.
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