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Ulugh Beg, Mīrzā Muhammad ibn Shârhrukh ibn Timar Ulugh Beg Guragan, 1394–1449, was the ruler of Samarqand (now in Uzbekistan) and an astronomer, mathematician, and poet. His nickname, Ulugh Beg, means “great prince”. He was the grandson of the great conqueror Timúr. In 1417, as a pupil of Qadi Zâdeh al-Rami of Bursa (Turkey), he opened in Samarqand the madrasa (school) where al-Rami was the teacher. In 1425 he founded an astronomical observatory and invited Jamshid al-Kâshi to be its director.
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Rosenfeld, B., Sesiano, J., Rosenfeld, B.A. (1997). U. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1416-7_21
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