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Abu-Mahmud Khojandi

940 - 1000

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Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr al-Khujandi (known as Abu Mahmood Khujandi, al-khujandi or Khujandi, Persian: ابومحمود خجندی, c. 940 - 1000) was a Muslim Transoxanian astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand (now part of Tajikistan) who lived in the late 10th century and helped build an observatory, near the city of Ray (near today's Tehran), in Iran. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu-Mahmud Khojandi has received more than 60,899 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Abu-Mahmud Khojandi is the 151st most popular astronomer (up from 172nd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Tajikistan (up from 9th in 2019) and the most popular Tadzhik Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi ranks 151 out of 644. Before him are Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Mariam al-Asturlabi, George Biddell Airy, Eugène Joseph Delporte, and Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi. After him are Guillaume Bigourdan, Antonie Pannekoek, Abu Maʿshar, Andrea M. Ghez, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, and George Phillips Bond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 940, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi ranks 10. Before him are Mieszko I of Poland, Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, Eadwig, Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, Doubravka of Bohemia, and Baldwin III, Count of Flanders. After him are Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Henry III, Duke of Bavaria, Ibn Sahl, Bardas Phokas the Younger, Willigis, and Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar. Among people deceased in 1000, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi ranks 6. Before him are Olaf Tryggvason, Bjarni Herjólfsson, Al-Maqdisi, Harthacnut I of Denmark, and Zoe Karbonopsina. After him are Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Constantine of Preslav, Henry of Speyer, Bertha of Swabia, Ibn Sahl, and Abu Sulayman Sijistani.

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In Tajikistan

Among people born in Tajikistan, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi ranks 6 out of 35. Before him are Emomali Rahmon (1952), Rudaki (860), Spitamenes (-400), Nasir Khusraw (1004), and Rahmon Nabiyev (1930). After him are Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin (800), Oqil Oqilov (1944), Kokhir Rasulzoda (1959), Viktor Bout (1967), Qahhor Mahkamov (1932), and Vladimir Voinovich (1932).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Tajikistan

Among astronomers born in Tajikistan, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi ranks 1. 

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