Ibn al-Shāṭir: ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm
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ابن الشاطر: علاء الدين أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم
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Ibn al-Shāṭir: ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm
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ʿAlāʾ al‐Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm
ابو الحسن على بن ابراهيم المعروف بابن الشاطر
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Muṭʿim al-Anṣārī al-Falakī al-Dimashqī
Ibn al-Shatir
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699H/1300J
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761H/1360J
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Ibn al-Shāṭir, the long-time chief muezzin (raʾīs al-muʾadhdhinīn) and timekeeper (muwaqqit) at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, was one of the most important astronomers of pre-modern Islam, writing on a variety of topics and producing one of the most innovative astronomical systems prior to the advances of early modern Europe. |
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750
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10017
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Authored Works
36 works:Astronomical Instruments
Astronomical Tables/zījes
Astronomy: General
References
Reprinted in: "A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories during the Golden Age of Islam." New York: New York University Press, 1994, pp. 233-41.
Partly reprinted in: Kennedy, Edward Stewart and Imad Ghanim, eds. The Life and Work of Ibn al-Shāṭir: An Arab Astronomer of the Fourteenth Century. Aleppo: Institute for History of Arabic Science; University of Aleppo, 1976, pp. 27-35.
Pp. 254-56 (no. 750).
Pp. 61-3 (no. C30).
Fondazione Alessandro Volta, Atti dei convegni, Vol. 13.
Reprinted in: Kennedy, Edward Stewart and Imad Ghanim, eds. The Life and Work of Ibn al-Shāṭir: An Arab Astronomer of the Fourteenth Century. Aleppo: Institute for History of Arabic Science; University of Aleppo, 1976, pp. 107-121.
Reprinted in: "Islamic Astronomical Instruments," XII. London: Variorum Reprints, 1987. Reprinted again in: Aldershot: Variorum, 1995.
Contains reprints of all of the early studies of Ibn al‐Shāṭir's planetary theory.
Reprinted in: "Islamic Mathematical Astronomy," III. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986; 2nd revised edition, Aldershot: Variorum, 1993.
Pp. 391-92, 435, 439.
Vol. 1 (2004): The Call of the Muezzin (Studies I-IX), II-9.3. Vol 2 (2005): Instruments of Mass Calculation, XIVb-4 and 8.