# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-qushji
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:03:39.890Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-qushji"
name: "Ali Qushji"
slug: "ali-qushji"
description: "Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed, Persian: علاءالدین علی بن محمد سمرقندی known as Ali Qushji was a Timurid theologian, jurist, astronomer, mathematician and physicist, who settled in the Ottoman Empire some time before 1472. As a disciple of Ulugh Beg, he is best known for the development of astronomical physics independent from natural philosophy, and for providing empirical evidence for the Earth's rotation in his treatise, Concerning the Supposed Dependence of Astronomy upon Philosophy. In addition to his contributions to Ulugh Beg's famous work Zij-i-Sultani and to the founding of Sahn-ı Seman Medrese, one of the first centers for the study of various traditional Islamic sciences in the Ottoman Empire, Ali Kuşçu was also the author of several scientific works and textbooks on astronomy."
tagline: "Ottoman astronomer and mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fatih_Sultan_Mehmed_und_Ali_Ku%C5%9F%C3%A7u.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1403"
deathDate: "1474-12-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3485282445909108
  historical:           21.01293733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump