Hassan al-Jabarti

Hassan al-Jabarti (died 1774) was a Somali mathematician, theologian, astronomer and philosopher who lived in Cairo, Egypt, in the eighteenth century. He came from the Somali city of Zeila and was the father of the historian Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti. He is considered one of the great scholars of his century and often carried out experiments that students and teachers from Al-Azhar came to watch. Most of his works remain unpublished and are held in archives, so his reputation rests chiefly on what later writers recorded about his learning.