PERSON

Ramaḍān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Ṣafaṭī al-Khānaqī (Khawānikī)

Name (arabic)

رمضان بن صالح السفطي الخوانكي

Name (translit)

Ramaḍān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Ṣafaṭī al-Khwānakī

Alias

Khawānikī
Ramaḍān al-Ṣafaṭī al-Ḫwānakī
رمضان بن صالح بن عمر الصفطي الخوانكي
Ramaẓān ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿOmar ibn Ḥicāzī ibn ʿOmar al-Ṣafaṭī (Safṭī) al-Hānaḳī
Ramaḍān al-Ḫwānakī

Died in

Notes

Ramaḍān Khawānikī (d. 1158/1748; Cairo) wrote many works on mathematics and astronomy, including a commentary on Ibn Abī al‐Fatḥ al‐Ṣūfī's (fl. late 15th/early 16th centuries) Nubdhat al‐isʿāf fī maʿrifat qaws al‐khilāf. All his works were composed in Arabic.

Number in MAMS

1323

ismi_id

197752

Authored Works

1 works:

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Itḥāf ʿalá nubdhat al-isʿāf fī maʿrifah qaws al-khilāf , الاتحاف على نبذة الإسعاف في معرفة قوس الخلاف

References

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P. 402 (no. 1323).

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Pp. 418-26 (no. 279).

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

Vol 2, pp. 471-72; suppl. vol. 2, pp. 487.

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. 111 (D78).

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. 640-641.