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Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh ( Chagatay: میرزا محمد طارق بن شاہ رخ; Persian: میرزا محمد تراغای بن شاهرخ ), better known as Ulugh Beg ( Persian: الغ بیگ; Turkish: Uluğ Bey; 22 March 1394 – 27 October 1449), [a] was a Timurid sultan, as well as an astronomer and mathematician.
The Ulugh Beg Observatory is an observatory in modern day Samarkand, Uzbekistan, which was built in the 1420s by the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg. This school of astronomy was constructed under the Timurid Empire, and was the last of its kind from the Islamic Medieval period [1].
Ulugh Beg Mirza II also known as Ulugh Beg Kabuli (d. 1502) was the Ruler of the Timurid Empire of Kabul and Ghazni from 1469 to 1502. he was the son of Abu Sa'id Mirza who was also the Ruler of Timurid Empire and Great-Grandson to the Timur who founded the Timurid Dynasty, his Nephew Babur founded Moghul Empire in South Asian Subcontinent in ...
Ulūgh Beg (born 1394, Solṭānīyeh, Timurid Iran—died Oct. 27, 1449, Samarkand, Timurid empire [now in Uzbekistan]) was the grandson of the Asian conqueror Timur (Tamerlane) and one whose primary interest was in the arts and intellectual matters.
Scholars hail Ulugh Beg´s (1394–1449) 15th-century observatory in Samarkand and associated madrasa as one of the most famous scientific institutions in the Islamicate (1) world. The observatory produced unequaled astronomical observations that resulted in a star catalog called the Zij-i Sultani.
Oct 27, 2011 · Ulugh Beg was the grandson of the conqueror Tamerlane and was a mathematician and astronomer. He founded an important centre for study at Samarkand staffed with the best scientists of the time. He did important early work on trigonometry.
Jun 20, 2020 · Built by the star-gazing sultan and astronomer Ulugh Beg, the Ulugh Beg Observatory in modern-day Uzbekistan is one of the finest examples from the medieval
Apr 18, 2024 · Located in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the Ulugh Beg Observatory was built in 1420s by astronomer Ulugh Beg. The ancient Islamic observatory was the site of the world’s most advanced...
Born into noble Timurid lineage, Ulugh Beg gained fame for his intellect and pioneering strides in astronomy and mathematics.
According to the Bāburnāma of Ẓahīr-ad-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (1483-1530), founder of the Mughal Empire and a great-great-great-grandson of Timūr, the observatory was three stories high. The site of the Samarakand Observatory was discovered in 1908 by Vasiliy Lavrentievič Vyatkin (1869-1932).
