Fakhr al-Din al-Akhlati | |
Native Name: | فخر الدين الأخلاتي |
Native Name Lang: | ar |
Birth Date: | fl. |
Era: | Islamic Golden Age |
Main Interests: | Astronomy |
Fakhr al-Din al-Akhlati (Kurdish: Fexredînê Exlatî, Fakhr al-Din al-Kurdi al-Akhlati; Arabic: فخر الدين الأخلاتي; flourished), was a Kurdish and Islamic astronomer from Anatolia, who worked at the Maragha observatory.[1] He was one of the first elites that the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi recruited to work in there. Al-Akhlati's life was in a period contemporaneous with the fall of Baghdad at the hands of the Mongols in 1258.[2]