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deathDate: "0986-05-25"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi was born on 7 December 903. He worked at the Buyid court in Isfahan, where he undertook the patient labor of charting the heavens. In 964, he completed "Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib" ("The Book of Fixed Stars"), a work that combined written descriptions with illustrations of the constellations. The polymath Al-Biruni later noted that al-Sufi conducted his observations of the ecliptic in Shiraz. He died on 25 May 986, leaving behind a record of the stars as they appeared to tenth-century eyes.