Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḫalīl ibn Yūsuf al-Māridīnī

PERSON

Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf al-Māridīnī

Name (arabic)	جمال الدين عبد الله بن خليل بن يوسف المارديني
Name (translit)	Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf al-Māridīnī
Alias	Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mārdīnī جمال الدين المارديني ابى عبد الله جمال الدين المارجينى جمال الدين المارداني
Flourished
Died	1406 CE/ 0809 AH
Lived in	Cairo Damascus
Grandparent of	Sibṭ al-Māridīnī: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr (Shams) al-Dīn al-Dimashqī Sibṭ al-Mārdīnī
Student of	Ibn al-Shāṭir: ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm
Role	Timekeeper (muwaqqit)
Notes	A disciple of Ibn al-Shāṭir (d. 777/1375), he may have been a muwaqqit at the Damascus Umayyad Mosque. He later became a muwaqqit in Cairo. He was also the teacher of Ibn al‐Majdī, one of the major Egyptian astronomers during the first half of the 15th c., and the maternal grandfather of Sibt al‐Māridīnī.
Number in MAMS	775
ismi_id	8618

Authored Works

9 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Al-Durr (al-Luʾluʾ) al-manthūr fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-dastūr , الدرّ [اللؤلؤ] المنثور في العمل بربع الدستور

Ghāyat al-intifāʿ fī al-ʿamal bi-al-bakhsh alladhī fī ākhir qaws al-irtifāʿ , غاية الانتفاع في العمل بالبخش الذي في آخر قوس الارتفاع

Muqaddima fī maʿrifat al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-shakkāziyya , مقدّمة في معرفة العمل بربع الشكّازية

Risāla fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab , رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيّب

Risāla fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-dāʾira al-mawḍūʿ fīhi al-juyūb , رسالة في العمل بربع الدائرة الموضوع فيه الجيوب

Risāla mulakhkhaṣa fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab , رسالة ملخّصة في العمل بالربع المجيّب

Waraqāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-dāʾira alladhī ʿalayhi al-muqanṭarāt , ورقات في العمل بربع الدائرة الذي عليه المقنطرات

Waraqāt ʿalā risālat al-Māridīnī fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab , ورقات على رسالة المارديني في العمل بالربع المجيّب

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Risāla fī al-ʿamal bi-al-jadāwil al-musammāh bi-al-shabaka , رسالة في العمل بالجداول المسمّاة بالشبكة

References

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P. 261 (no. 775).

Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 2, p. 218; suppl. 2, p. 218.

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

Pp. 66-67 (C47).

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. 469-70.

Rahman, Abdur, M Alvi, Shabbir Ghori, and Samba Murthy. 1982. Science and Technology in Medieval India : A Bibliography of Source Materials in Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy.

P. 276.

Suter, Heinrich. 1981. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke. Amsterdam: APA; Oriental Press.

P. 170.

Rénaud, Henri. 1932. “Additions Et Corrections à Suter Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber”. Isis 18 (1): 166-83.

Pp. 173-74.

Suter, Heinrich. 1902. “Nachträge Und Berichtigungen”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen 14: 157-85.

P. 177.

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. 1, p. 306; vol. 2, pp. 218, 236, 253; vol. 4, pp. 156, 399, 432, 496, 511; vol. 5, pp. 205, 211, 332, 345, 407.

Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 3, pp. 1530-33.