Qur'anScience
Qur'anScience
Amid the storm of the Mongol invasions, a scholar built the greatest observatory of his age and saved treasures of books. The twenty-sixth book of Tracing the Scholars of Islam tells the story of Nasir ad-Din at-Tusi: builder of the Maragha Observatory, creator of the “Tusi couple”, and pioneer of trigonometry as a discipline in its own right. “The sun and the moon [move] by precise calculation.”
“The sun and the moon [move] by precise calculation.”
Anyone who wants to know the early scholars
Parents & heads of families
Students of astronomy & mathematics
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The story of Nasir ad-Din at-Tusi — verses 55:5 and 36:40, two authentic reports with linked chains, a timeline, a Tusi couple chart, history notes marked separately, and a table of popular stories.