Ibn al-Shatir
1304 CE–1375 CE · Damascus
ʿAbu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn bin Alī bin Ibrāhīm bin Muhammad bin al-Matam al-Ansari, known as Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir (Arabic: ابن الشاطر; 1304–1375) was an Arab astronomer, mathematician and engineer. He worked as muwaqqit (موقت, timekeeper) in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and constructed a sundial for its minaret in 1371/72.
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Major Sephardi center; where Chaim Vital lived from 1594 and wrote much of the Shaar collection.
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- Acamapichtli· –1395 CE
- Hayam Wuruk· 1334 CE–1389 CE
- Hongwu Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang)· 1328 CE–1398 CE
- Muhammad bin Tughluq· –1351 CE
- Ivan I Kalita· 1288 CE–1340 CE
- Emperor Go-Daigo· 1288 CE–1339 CE
- Al-Nasir Muhammad· 1285 CE–1341 CE
- Barquq· 1336 CE–1399 CE
- Dmitry Donskoy· 1350 CE–1389 CE
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