Badīʿ Al-Zaman Abu al-Qasim Hibatallah Ibn Al-Ḥusayn (Arabic: بديع الزمان أبوالقاسم هبة الله بن الحسين البديع الأسطرلابي) more commonly known as al-Badīʿ al-Asṭurlābī, was a prominent medieval Arab physician, philosopher, astronomer, and poet of the Islamic Golden Age.
[1] Al-Badi' al-Asturlabi birth place and date is unknown.
He is recorded to have lived in Isfahan in 510 AH (1116–7 AD) and was in contact with the Christian Arab physician Ibn al-Tilmidh (1074–1165).
He is mostly renowned for designing and creating astronomical instruments, astrolabes and as an astrologer.
The only surviving work of his is a book by the name of Kitab al-'amal bil Kurah (On the use of the Spherical astrolabe).