Farghānī

Farghānī (Persian: فرغانی, meaning from Farghāna), or Al-Farghani is a common surname in Central and Western Asia and was a common nisbat in the medieval Islamic world. It may refer to the following:

• Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathīr al-Farghānī, also known as Alfraganus, a 9th-century astronomer
• Rustum ibn Bardu al-Farghani, 10th-century Abbasid commander and governor of Tarsus
• Siraj al-Din al-Ushi al-Farghani, 12th century Hanafi-Maturidi scholar
• Sayf-i Farghānī, a 13th-century Persian poet
• Sa'id al-Din Farghani, a 13th-century Sufi author
• Abu Abdullah b. Ahmad b. Ja'far al-Farghani, the student of al-Tabari who wrote the appendix, al-Sila, to History of the Prophets and Kings.

See also

• Fergani (disambiguation), a surname of North African origin

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Farghānī.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.