Maslamah Ibn Ahmad al-Majriti

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Maslama al-Majriti (d. 1008 or 1007 CE), was a Muslim scholar in Spain. He took part in the translation of Ptolemy's Planispherium, improved existing translations of the Almagest, introduced and improved the astronomical tables of al-Khwarizmi, aided historians by working out tables to convert Persian dates to Hijri years, and introduced the techniques of surveying and triangulation. The authorship of part of the Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Sincerity has also been attributed to him, but this is unlikely.

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