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Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf

1526 - 1580

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Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي; Ottoman Turkish: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي السعدي; Turkish: Takiyüddin‎ 1526–1585) was an Ottoman polymath active in Cairo and Istanbul. He was the author of more than ninety books on a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, clocks, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, optics, and natural philosophy. In 1574 the Ottoman Sultan Murad III invited Taqi ad-Din to build an observatory in the Ottoman capital, Istanbul. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf has received more than 174,972 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf is the 99th most popular astronomer (up from 112th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Syria (down from 57th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ranks 99 out of 644. Before him are Petrus Apianus, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth, Johann Elert Bode, Wilhelm Tempel, and Cornelis Johannes van Houten. After him are Reinhard Genzel, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Adelard of Bath, Annie Jump Cannon, and Angelo Secchi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1526, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ranks 8. Before him are Catherine Jagiellon, Akechi Mitsuhide, Elizabeth of Austria, Augustus, Elector of Saxony, Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and Rafael Bombelli. After him are Bâkî, Benedict the Moor, Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz, Matsudaira Hirotada, and Louis Bertrand. Among people deceased in 1580, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ranks 8. Before him are Luís de Camões, Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain, Lala Mustafa Pasha, Henry, King of Portugal, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, and Ruy López de Segura. After him are Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Inés Suárez, Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, Juliana of Stolberg, Hieronymus Wolf, and Philippine Welser.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ranks 58 out of 210. Before him are Herodian (170), Tuman bay II (1474), Julia Maesa (165), Abdul Halim Khaddam (1932), Farid al-Atrash (1910), and Amin al-Hafiz (1921). After him are Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din (1170), Hazael (-900), Ibrahim ibn al-Walid (700), Sophronius of Jerusalem (560), Khaled al-Asaad (1932), and Seleucus VI Epiphanes (-150).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Syria

Among astronomers born in Syria, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ranks 1. After him are Mariam al-Asturlabi (950).

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