ISMI Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

TEXT

Zīj (Sanad b. ʿAlī)

Title (arabic)

زيج
Title (translit)

Zīj (Sanad b. ʿAlī)
Alias

Zīj (Sanad b. ʿAlī)
Author

Abū al-Ṭayyib Sanad ibn ʿAlī al-Yahūdī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Tables/zījes
Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
Notes

Sanad ibn ʿAlī's 9th-c. Zīj is not extant, but it was used in the 13th century.
(From MAMS2): Quoted in the Zīj of Ibn Yūnis.
ismi_id

50574

Literature 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. 29 (no. 48), A1.

Kennedy, Edward. 1956. “A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables”. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 46, pt. 2: 121-77.

P. 136 (no. 96).