PERSON

Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ghulām Allāh al-Kūm al-Rīshī

Name (arabic)

شهاب الدين أحمد بن غلام الله الكوم الريشي

Name (translit)

Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ghulām Allāh al-Kūm al-Rīshī

Alias

Aḥmad ibn Ġulām Allāh al-Rīshī
الشيخ العمدة احمد ابن غلام الله ابن [ا]حمد الشهير بالکوم الريشي
Aḥmad ibn Ġulām Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Kūm al-Rīshī
Kūm al-Rīšī
احمد ابن غلام الله ابن احمد الشهير بالکوم الريشي

Died

836H/1433J

Notes

Timekeeper of the Muʾayyad mosque, Cairo.

Number in MAMS

800

ismi_id

2712

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Lumʿah fī ḥall al-kawākib al-sabʿah , اللمعة في حلّ الکواکب السبعة
Kifāyat al-taʿlīm fī waḍʿ al-taqwīm , كفاية التعليم في وضع التقويم

References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 269 (no. 800).

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 65 (C41).