What is "farghani"

Farghānī (, 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
• Sayf-i Farghānī, a 13th-century Persian poet
• Saʿīd-al-dīn Moḥammad Farghānī, a 13th-century Sufi author