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
  1. 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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