Al-Fadl ibn Naubakht, (also written Nowbakht), was an 8th-century Persian scholar at the court of the Caliph
Harun al-Rashid
Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi ( ar
, أبو جعفر هارون ابن محمد المهدي) or Harun ibn al-Mahdi (; or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid ( ar, هَارُون الرَشِيد, translit=Hārūn ...
. He was son of the famous
Naubakht
Nobakht Ahvazi ( fa, نوبخت اهوازى), also spelled Naubakht Ahvaz and Naubakht, along with his sons were astrologers from Ahvaz (in the present-day Khuzestan Province, Iran) who lived in the 8th and 9th centuries AD.
Nobakht was particu ...
, a former Zoroastrian, who had designed the
House of Wisdom.
He was appointed as a scholar at the court of Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
See also
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List of Iranian scientists
The following is a non-comprehensive list of Iranian scientists, engineers, and scholars who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age. For the modern era, see List of contemporary Iranian scientists, scholars, and engineer ...
References
Year of birth missing
8th-century deaths
Medieval Iranian librarians
Medieval Iranian astrologers
Scholars from the Abbasid Caliphate
8th-century Iranian people
8th-century astrologers
8th-century translators
8th-century Arabic writers
8th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
8th-century writers
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