Ibn Yunus

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What Wikipedia says

Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn Abi al-Said 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus ibn Abd al-'Ala al-Sadafi al-Misri (Arabic: ابن يونس; c. 950 – 1009) was an Arab and Egyptian astronomer and mathematician,. The Fatimids gave him gifts and established an observatory for him on Mount Mokattam near Fustat.

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Image: Ibn Yunus of Cairo (d. 1009), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.