Jabir ibn Aflah (Geber the astronomer)
1100 CE–1160 CE · Seville
Abū Muḥammad Jābir ibn Aflaḥ (Arabic: أبو محمد جابر بن أفلح, Latin: Geber/Gebir; 1100–1150) was an Arab Muslim astronomer and mathematician from Seville, who was active in 12th century al-Andalus. His work Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭi (Correction of the Almagest) influenced Islamic, Jewish, and Christian astronomers.
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Seville's Jewish community was one of the largest in Castile before the 1391 massacres, which began here under the agitation of Archdeacon Ferrand Martinez. The destruction of the Sevillian Jewish community signaled the start of Iberian Jewry's century-long decline toward the 1492 expulsion.
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