Maslama al-Majriti

Maslama al-Majriti
Born950
Madrid, Al-Andalus (now Spain)
Died1007 (aged 56–57)
Córdoba, Caliphate of Córdoba (now Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain)
Occupation(s)Muslim astronomer, alchemist, mathematician, scholar, economist

Abu al-Qasim Maslama ibn Ahmad al-Majriti (Arabic: أبو القاسم مسلمة بن أحمد المجريطي: c. 950–1007), known in Latin as Methilem, was a Muslim Arab astronomer, alchemist, mathematician, economist and scholar in al-Andalus, active during the reign of Al-Hakam II. His full name is Abu 'l-Qāsim Maslama ibn Aḥmad al-Faraḍī al-Ḥāsib al-Maj̲rīṭī al-Qurṭubī al-Andalusī.

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