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Abu-Mahmud Khojandi

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Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr al-Khujandi (known as Abu Mahmood Khujandi, al-khujandi or Khujandi, Persian: ابومحمود خجندی, c. 940 – 1000) was a Transoxanian astronomer and mathematician born in Khujand (now part of Tajikistan) who lived in the late 10th century and helped build an observatory, near the city of Ray (near today's Tehran), in Iran. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abu-Mahmud Khojandi is the 119th most popular astronomer (up from 151st in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Tajikistan (up from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Tadzhik Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi ranks 119 out of 644. Before him are Annie Jump Cannon, James Van Allen, Petrus Plancius, Maria Margaretha Kirch, Heinrich Schwabe, and Yrjö Väisälä. After him are George Biddell Airy, Frank Drake, N. R. Pogson, Ernst Öpik, Maria Mitchell, and Girolamo Fracastoro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 940, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi ranks 8. Before him are Ferdowsi, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, Mieszko I of Poland, Eadwig, and Leopold I, Margrave of Austria. After him are Ibn Sahl, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar, Baldwin III, Count of Flanders, Doubravka of Bohemia, and Henry III, Duke of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1000, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi ranks 4. Before him are Olaf Tryggvason, Al-Maqdisi, and Bjarni Herjólfsson. After him are Ibn Sahl, Zoe Karbonopsina, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Matsyendranatha, Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar, Harthacnut I of Denmark, García Sánchez II of Pamplona, and Henry of Speyer.

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In Tajikistan

Among people born in Tajikistan, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi ranks 5 out of 35. Before him are Emomali Rahmon (1952), Rudaki (860), Nasir Khusraw (1004), and Spitamenes (-400). After him are Oqil Oqilov (1944), Rahmon Nabiyev (1930), Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin (800), Kokhir Rasulzoda (1959), Qahhor Mahkamov (1932), Vladimir Voinovich (1932), and Nellie Kim (1957).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Tajikistan

Among astronomers born in Tajikistan, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi ranks 1. 

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