Iran/Persia: A diagram of the heavenly spheres in an untitled Persian treatise on astronomy. The copy was completed on 7 November 1552 by Ṣadr al-Dīn al-mutaṭabbib [the medical practitioner]. Islamic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age (8th-15th centuries), and mostly written in the Arabic language. These developments mostly took place in the Middle East, Central Asia, Al-Andalus, and North Africa, and later in the Far East and India.

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