PERSON
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib al-Marwazī
| Name (arabic) |
أحمد بن عبد الله حبش الحاسب المروزي
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| Name (translit) |
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib al-Marwazī
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| Alias |
Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib al-Marwazī
Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib al-Marwazī
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-maʿrūf bi-Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib
Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib
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| Flourished |
08xx CE/ 02xx AH
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| Lived in |
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| Teacher of |
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| Number in MAMS |
46
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| Biography URL |
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| ismi_id |
163925
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Authored Works
17 works:Astronomical Instruments
al-ʿAmal bi-al-āsṭurlāb al-kurī wa-ʿajāʾibuhu , العمل بالأسطرلاب الكري وعجائبه
Kitāb al-rakhāʾim wa-al-maqāyīs , كتاب الرخائم والمقایيس
Kitāb fī maʿrifat al-kūrah wa-al-ʿamal bihā , كتاب في معرفة الکرة والعمل بها
Kitāb ʿamal al-asṭurlāb al-mubaṭṭakh , كتاب عمل الأسطرلاب المبطّخ
Kitāb ʿamal al-suṭūḥ al-mabsūṭah wa-al-qāʾimah wa-al-māʾilah wa-al-munḥarifah , كتاب عمل السطوح المبسوطة والقائمة والمائلة والمنحرفة
Maʿrifah kayfiyyat al-arṣād wa-al-ʿamal bi-dhāt al-ḥalaq , معرفة كيفية الأرصاد والعمل بذات الحلق
Risālah fī ʿamal al-ṣafīḥah al-jāmiʿah , رسالة في عمل الصفيحة الجامعة
Astronomical Tables/zījes
Zīj al-shāh , زيج الشاه
Zīj al-Sindhind , زيج السندهند
Zīj Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib , زيج حبش الحاسب
Astronomy: General
al-Risālah al-kāmilah fī ruʾyat al-hilāl , الرسالة الكاملة في رؤية الهلال
al-Risālah fī raṣad Dimashq , الرسالة في رصد دمشق
Kitab al-abʿād wa-al-ajrām , كتاب الأبعاد والأجرام
Kitāb al-arṣād fī Baghdād , كتاب الأرصاد في بغداد
Risālah Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib fī samt al-qiblah , رسالة حبش الحاسب في سمت القبلة
Mathematics: General
Kitāb al-dawāʾir al-thalāthah al-mutamāssah wa-kayfiyyat al-ittiṣāl , كتاب الدوائر الثلاثة المتماسة وکیفیة الإتصال
References
Charette, François. 2007. “Ḥabash Al-Ḥāsib: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Al-Marwazī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 1:455-57. New York: Springer-Verlag.
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 I-IX).
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. 27-28 (no. 46)
Charette, François, and Petra Schmidl. 2001. “A Universal Plate for Timekeeping by the Stars by Ḥabash al‐Ḥāsib: Text, Translation and Commentary”. Suhayl 2: 107-59.
King, David. 2000. “Too Many Cooks . A New Account of the Earliest Muslim Geodetic Measurements”. Suhayl 1: 207-42.
Pp. 217-22.
Kennedy, Edward, Paul Kunitzsch, and Richard Lorch. 1999. The Melon-Shaped Astrolabe in Arabic Astronomy. Stuttgart: Steiner.
Texts edited with translation and commentary.
King, David. 1999. World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science. Leiden; Boston: E. J. Brill.
Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.
Vol. 1, p. 250; suppl. 1, p. 393.
Hill, Donald. 1993. “Mūsā, Banū”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2ndnd ed., 7:640-41. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Berggren, J.Lennart. 1991. “Ḥabash’s Analemma for Representing Azimuth Circles on the Astrolabe”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 7: 23-30.
Debarnot, Marie-Thérèse, David King, and George Saliba. 1987. “The Zīj of Ḥabash al‐Ḥāsib: A Survey of MS Istanbul Yeni Cami 784 2”. In From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honour of E. S. Kennedy, 35-69. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
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. 38.
Langermann, Y.Tzvi. 1985. “The Book of Bodies and Distances of Ḥabash al‐Ḥāsib”. Centaurus 28: 108-28.
Lorch, Richard, and Paul Kunitzsch. 1985. “Ḥabash al‐Ḥāsib’s Book on the Sphere and Its Use”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 2: 68-98.
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. 47-49 (no. 22).
Kennedy, Edward, David King, and Mary Kennedy. 1983. Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences. Beirut: American University of Beirut.
Collection of previously published papers, including numerous studies devoted to detailed aspects of Ḥabash's astronomical achievements.
Al-Hāshimī, ʿAlī, and David Pingree. 1981. The Book of the Reasons Behind Astronomical Tables [Kitāb Fī ʿilal al‐zījāt]. Trans. Edward Kennedy and Fuad Haddad. Facsimile reproduction of the unique Arabic text contained in the Bodleian MS Arch. Seld. A.11. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints.
A facsimile reproduction of the unique Arabic text contained in the Bodleian MS Arch. Seld. A.11.
Suter, Heinrich. 1981. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke. Amsterdam: APA; Oriental Press.
Pp. 12-13.
Berggren, J.Lennart. 1980. “A Comparison of Four Analemmas for Determining the Azimuth of the Qibla”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 4: 69-80.
Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Pp. 173-75.
Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Pp. 275-77.
Hartner, Willy. 1971. “Ḥabas̲h̲ Al-Ḥāsib Al-Marwazī”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Vol. 3.
al-Nadīm Ibn. 1970. The Fihrist of Muḥammad Ibn Isḥāq Ibn Al-Nadīm: A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture. Ed. Bayard Dodge. 2 vol. New York: Columbia University Press.
Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1967. The Determination of the Coordinates of Positions for the Correction of Distances Between Cities; A Translation from the Arabic of Kitāb taḥdīd nihāyāt Al-amākin Li-taṣḥīḥ masāfāt Al-masākin. Trans. Jamil Ali. Beirut: The American University of Beirut.
Sayılı, Aydın. 1960. The Observatory in Islam and Its Place in the General History of the Observatory. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi (Turkish Historical Society).
Irani, Rida. 1956. “The ‘Jadwal al‐Taqwīm’ of Ḥabash al‐Ḥāsib”. Mathematics Department. Beirut: American University of Beirut.
Kennedy, Edward. 1956. “A Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables”. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 46, pt. 2: 121-77.
Reprinted in: Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1989.
Sayılı, Aydın. 1955. “The Introductory Section of Habash’s Astronomical Tables Known As the ’Damascene’ Zij”. Ankara Üniversitesi Dil Ve Tarih–Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi 13: 132-51.
Lippert, Julius, and Jamāl Al-Qifṭī. 1903. “Taʾrīḫ Al-hukamāʾ”. Leipzig: Theodor Weicher.
Lippert, Julius, and Jamāl Al-Qifṭī. 1903. “Taʾrīḫ Al-hukamāʾ”. Leipzig: Theodor Weicher.
P. 170.