PERSON

Saydī ʿAlī Raʾīs: Sīdī ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn Čelebī Kātib Rūmī Ghalaṭawī

Name (arabic)

سيدي علي بن حسين چلبي كاتب رومي غلطوي

Name (translit)

Saydī ʿAlī Raʾīs: Sīdī ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn Čelebī Kātib Rūmī Ghalaṭawī

Alias

Sayyid ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn Kātibi Rūmī
سيدي ريس
Sīdī Reis
Seydī Alī Reis
Sīdī Raʾīs
Sayyid ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn
Sīdī Kātib-i Rūmī
Saydī ʿAlī Raʾīs
ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn al-Kātibī
Seyyid Müneccim

Flourished

Died

1562 CE/ 0970 AH

Lived in

Notes

Saydī ʿAlī Raʾīs (d. 955/1548) was an Ottoman admiral and astronomer.

Number in MAMS

977

ismi_id

14116

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Mirʾāt al-Kāʾināt [T] , مرآة الكائنات

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Khulāṣat al-hayʾat [T] , خلاصة الهيئة

References

Umut, Hasan. 2019. “Theoretical Astronomy in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: ʿAlī Al-Qūshjī’s Al-Risāla Al-Fatḥiyya”. Institute of Islamic Studies. Montreal, Quebec: McGill University.
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.

Pp. 325-26 (no. 977).

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Vol. 1, pp. 140-45 (no. 71).

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. 171 (H11).

Matvievskaya, Galina, and Boris Rozenfeld. 1983. Matematiki I Astronomy Musulmanskogo Srednevekovya I Ikh Trudi, VIII-XVII Vv [Mathematicians and Astronomers of the Muslim Middle Ages and Their Works, VIII-XVII Centuries]. 3 vol. Moscow: Nauka.

Vol. 2, pp. 555-56.

Turan, Şerafettin. 1966. “Seydi Ali Reis”. In İslam Ansiklopedisi, 10:528-31. N/A.
Rais, Seydi Ali. 1963. Mir’otul Mamolik (Mamlakatlar Kuzgusi). Trans. Sh. Zunnunovniki. Tashkent: N/A.

This publication includes an introductory chapter by Sabahat Azimjan qizi (Azimjanova): "Ali Rais wa uning "Mir'otul mamolik" asari haqida (pp. 5-37)."

al-ʿAzzāwī ʿAbbās. 1958. Taʾrīkh ʿilm Al-Falak Fī Al-ʿIrāq Wa-ʿalaqātihi Bi-Al-aqṭār Al-islāmiyyah Wa-Al-Gharbiyyah Fī Al-ʿuhūd Al-tāliyah Li-ayyām Al-ʻAbbāsiyyīn. Baghdad: Maṭbaʿat al-majmaʿ al-ʿilmī al-ʿIrāqī.

Pp. 254-57.

Krachkovsky, Ignaty. 1957. “Arabskaya Geograficheskaya Literatura”. In Izbrannye Sochineniya. Vol. 4. Moscow-Leningrad.

Pp. 569-76.

Adnan, Abdulhak. 1939. La Science Chez Les Turcs Ottomans. Paris: Librairie Orientale et Americaine G.P. Maisonneuve.

Pp. 67-70.

Ferrand, Gabriel. 1936. L’amiral Sidi Ali Et Le Muhit: Introduction à l’astronomie Nautique Arabe. Paris: N/A.
Süssheim, Karl. 1913. “’Ali (Sidi ’Ali) B. Husain”. In Encyclopédie De l’Islam, 1:301-2. Leiden: Brill.
Suter, Heinrich. 1900. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke.. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen, Vol. 10. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.

Pp. 189-90.

Vámbéry, Ármin. 1899. The Travels and Adventures of the Turkish Admiral Sidi Ali Reïs in India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Persia, During the Years 1553-1556. London: Luzac & Co. Publishers to the India Office.
Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub waʾl-funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum a Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 5, p. 485.

Bursalı, Mehmet. Osmanlı müellifleri : Osmanlirki Zuhurandan Zamanimiza Kadar Gelen Ve Mesleklerinde Eser Yazan Türk Mashayih, Ulema, shu`ara Ve Udaba, Muarrihin, Atibba, Riyaziyun Ve Jughrafiyunki Muhtasar tercüme Hallariylah Eserlerine Dair malûmati kâfi Havidar. 3 vol. İstanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire.

Vol. 3, pp. 270-72.

Storey, Charles, and François De Blois. Persian Literature: A Bio‐Bibliographical Survey. 5 vol. London: Luzac.

Vol. 2, pp. 76-77.