Šams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḫalīlī

PERSON

Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī

Name (arabic)	شمس الدين ابوعبد الله محمد بن محمد الخليلي
Name (translit)	Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī
Alias	Khalīlī, Shams al-Dīn شمس الدين ابو عبد الله محمد بن محمد بن محمد الخليلي الحنفي الموقت بالجامع الاموي شمس الدين محمد بن محمد الخليلي الحنفي الموقت بالجامع الاموي شمس الدين محمد بن محمد الخليلي شمس الدين ابو عبد الله محمد بن محمد الخليلي الحنفي الموقت بالجامع الاموي محمد بن محمد بن محمد الخليلي
Flourished	1365 CE/ 0766 AH
Lived in	Syria Damascus
Notes	Flourished Damascus (Syria), circa 1365. Khalīlī was an astronomer associated with the Umayyad Mosque and a colleague of Ibn al-Shāṭir. Khalīlī was also a muwaqqit.
Number in MAMS	764
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Khalili_BEA.htm
ismi_id	10695

Authored Works

5 works:

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Jadwal al-āfāqī , الجدول الآفاقي

Jadwal al-dāʾir wa-faḍlihī lī-ʿarḍ Dimashq , جدول الدائر وفضله لعرض دمشق

Jadwal aʿmāl al-layl wa-al-nahār lī-ʿarḍ Dimashq , جدول أعمال الليل والنهار لعرض دمشق

Jadwal faḍl al- dāʾir lī-ʿarḍ Dimashq , جدول فضل الدائر لعرض دمشق

Kitāb al-dāʾir wa-faḍl al-dāʾir wa-al-samt min ʿarḍ darajah ilá ʿarḍ khamsīn darajah , كتاب الدائر وفضل الدائر والسمت من عرض درجة إلى عرض خمسين درجة

References

King, David. 2007. “Khalīlī: Shams al‐Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad al‐Khalīlī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 625-26. New York: Springer.

King, David. 2004. In Synchrony With the Heavens: Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization. 2 vol. Leiden; Boston: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 1, The Call of the Muezzin: Studies II-10.

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. 258 (no. 764).

King, David. 1993. “L’astronomie En Syrie à l’époque Islamique”. In Syrie : Mémoire Et Civilisation, eds. Sophie Cluzan, Eric Delpont, and Jeanne Mouliérac. Paris: Institut du monde arabe; Flammarion.

Especially pp. 392-94, 440.

Van Brummelen, Glen. 1991. “The Numerical Structure of Al-Khalīlī’s Auxiliary Tables”. Physis 28: 667-97.

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. 64-65 (C37).

King, David. 1983. “The Astronomy of the Mamluks”. Isis 74 (4): 531-55.

Reprinted in: "Islamic Mathematical Astronomy," III. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986; 2nd rev. ed., Aldershot: Variorum, 1993.

King, David. 1978. “Al-Khalīlī”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. Charles Gillispie, 15:259-61. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

King, David. 1975. “Al-Khalīlī’s Qibla Table”. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 34 (2): 81-122.

Reprinted in: "Islamic Mathematical Astronomy," XIII. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986; 2nd rev. ed., Aldershot: Variorum, 1993.

King, David. 1973. “Al-Khalīlī’s Auxiliary Tables for Solving Problems of Spherical Astronomy”. Journal for the History of Astronomy 4: 99-110.

Reprinted in: "Islamic Mathematical Astronomy," XI. London: Variorum Reprints, 1986; 2nd rev. ed., Aldershot: Variorum, 1993.