Zulema L'Astròloga
Zulema L'Astròloga (1190 – after 1229), was a Moorish astronomer.
She was a Moorish noblewoman living in in 1229. She was the mother of , who assisted James I of Aragon in the conquest of Mallorca. She was described as a renowned astronomer. After the conquest, she and her family were allowed to remain on the island. Tradition has recorded anecdotes about her. The medieval tower of Sant Elm an Andratx is said to have been the tower from which she watched the stars.
She is mentioned in the contemporary Crònica by Bernat Desclot, and the subject of the poem N'Alí de la Palomera by in 1871, as well as in a poem by .
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- «Diccionari Biogràfic de Dones: Zulema L'Astròloga»
- Penya i Nicolau, Pere d'Alcàntara (1871). N’Alí de la Palomera. Jochs Florals de Barcelona. Barcelona: Estampa de la Renaixença.
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- 1190 births
- 13th-century deaths
- 13th-century Al-Andalus people
- 13th-century astronomers
- Medieval women scientists
- Medieval Moorish astronomers
- 13th-century people from the Kingdom of Aragon
- Women of Al-Andalus