Al-Fazl or Al-Fadl ibn Naubakht, (also written Nowbakht), was an 8th century Persian scholar.
Life
Al-Fadl ibn Naubakht was the son of
Naubakht
Nobakht Ahvazi (), 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 particularly famous for having led a ...
, a former
Zoroastrian
Zoroastrianism ( ), also called Mazdayasnā () or Beh-dīn (), is an Iranian religion centred on the Avesta and the teachings of Zarathushtra Spitama, who is more commonly referred to by the Greek translation, Zoroaster ( ). Among the wo ...
, who had designed the
House of Wisdom
The House of Wisdom ( ), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid-era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad. In popular reference, it acted as one of the world's largest publ ...
. He was appointed as a scholar at the court of caliph
Harun al-Rashid
Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rāshīd (), or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī (; or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Hārūn al-Rāshīd (), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 unti ...
.
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Year of birth missing
8th-century deaths
Iranian librarians
Medieval Iranian astrologers
Scholars from the Abbasid Caliphate
8th-century Iranian people
8th-century astrologers
8th-century translators
8th-century Arabic-language writers
8th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
8th-century writers