# Hassan al-Jabarti (Xasan al-Jabarti)

> Hassan al-Jabarti (d. 1774): Zeila-origin mathematician and astronomer in Cairo, father of the historian al-Jabarti.

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## Who was he?

Hassan al-Jabarti was a Somali mathematician, theologian, astronomer and philosopher who lived in Cairo in the eighteenth century and died in 1774 ([Wikipedia, Hassan al-Jabarti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_al-Jabarti)). His family came from the Somali city of Zeila (same source). See [Awdal](/en/regions/awdal/) and [Somalis in Egypt](/en/diaspora/egypt/).

## Work

He is counted among the leading scholars of eighteenth-century Cairo ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_al-Jabarti)). He often carried out experiments, which students and teachers from al-Azhar came to watch (same source). Most of his writings remain unpublished in archives (same source).

He was the father of Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, the historian of Egypt (same source).

## In short

A Zeila-origin scholar of mathematics and astronomy in eighteenth-century Cairo, and father of the historian al-Jabarti.

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