Mustafa ibn Ali al-Muwaqqit

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title: Mustafa ibn Ali al-Muwaqqit
text: Mustafa ibn Ali al-Muwaqqit, also known as Müneccimbaşı Mustafa Çelebi and Koca Saatçi, was an Ottoman astronomer and author of geography from the sixteenth century. Because of his works on the science of timekeeping and practical astronomy, he is considered "the founder of the Ottoman tradition" of those fields. He was one of the pioneers of astronomy literature in Ottoman Turkish—instead of Arabic which was more common in the Islamic world—following Muhammad al-Qunawi. Since his youth he serve
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