Fakhr al-Din al-Akhlati | |
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فخر الدين الأخلاتي | |
Born | fl. c. 1260 |
Academic work | |
Era | Islamic Golden Age |
Main interests | Astronomy |
Fakhr al-Din al-Akhlati (Kurdish: Fexredînê Exlatî, Fakhr al-Din al-Kurdi al-Akhlati; Arabic: فخر الدين الأخلاتي; flourished c. 1260), was a Kurdish and Islamic astronomer from Anatolia, who worked at the Maragha observatory.[1][2] He was one of the first elites that the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi recruited to work in there. Al-Akhlati's life was in a period contemporaneous with the fall of Baghdad at the hands of the Mongols in 1258.[3]