Al-Fadl Ibn Naubakht
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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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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fadl ibn Naubakht, Al- 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