Naubakht
Nobakht Ahvazi (Persian: نوبخت اهوازى), also spelled Naubakht Ahvaz and Naubakht, along with his sons were astrologers from Ahvaz (in the present-day Khuzestan Province, Iran) who lived in the 8th and 9th centuries AD.
Nobakht was particularly famous for having led a group of astrologers who picked an auspicious electional chart for the founding of Baghdad. His family also helped design the city. Originally Zoroastrians,[1] Nobakht and his sons converted to Islam and were employed as Pahlavi translators of the Abbasid court.
Sources
- Islam's Contribution to Science By Husain Muzzafar, S. Muzaffar Husain, pg. 31
- The Golden Age of Persia, by Richard Nelson Frye, p. 163.
- Khandan-i Naubakhti, by Abbas Iqbal, Tehran, 1933, pp 2–3 & 13.
- Islamic Science and Engineering, by Donald Hill, p. 10.
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