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Harran

Harran (classical Carrhae), in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian border, was famous in the early Islamic period as a centre of the Sabian community and of Greek-into-Arabic science. The mathematician-astronomers Thabit ibn Qurra (d. 901) and al-Battani (d. 929) came from Harran and its region; the Hanbali theologian Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) was also born there before his family fled the Mongols to Damascus.

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