Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī (Arabic: شمس الدين عبد الله محمد بن محمد الخليلي; 1320–1380) was a Mamluk-era Syrian astronomer who compiled astronomical tables.
He worked for most of his life as a muwaqqit (a religious timekeeper) at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.
He computed 13,000 entries into his 'Universal Tables' of different auxiliary functions which allowed him to generate the solutions of standard problems of spherical astronomy for any given latitude.
In addition to this, he created a 3,000 entry table that gave the qibla (the direction of the city of Mecca) for all latitudes and longitudes for all the Muslim countries of the 14th century.
[2][note 1] The values present in al-Khalili’s tables have been determined to be accurate up to three or four significant figures.