Andalusian Astronomy in the Eleventh Century

Abstract

Ibn al-Zarqālluh has been long established as the most important astronomer of the Islamic West. Working in the Iberian Peninsula in the eleventh century, he generated ideas that proved extremely influential not only for astronomers in Al-Andalus and the Maghrib in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries, but also in Europe, where his work was passed on in Latin and Romance translations.