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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.
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.
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
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.
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].
May 29, 2018 · ( b. Sulṭāniyya, Central Asia, 22 March 1394; d, near Samarkand, Central Asia [now Uzbek S.S.R.], 27 October 1449) astronomy. Ulugh Beg, which means “great prince,” was a title that replaced his original name, Muhammad Taragay.
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).
The Timurid ruler and patron of mathematics and astronomy Ulugh Beg was born in Sulṭāniyya on 19 Jumādā I 796 AH [= 23 March 1394]. He was a son of Shāhrukh Mīrzā (1377-1447) and a grandson of Tīmūr (1336-1405). ʿAbd al-Laṭif Mīrzā (c. 1420-1450). This section has not yet been written.
Aug 25, 2016 · Ulugh Beg and there are many variations on the name (Turkish for “great prince”) was a Timurid astronomer who made some of the best astronomical observations of his time. He is mostly remembered as a patron of mathematics and astronomy.
