Ibn Abī al‐Fatḥ al‐Ṣufi

PERSON

Ibn Abī al‐Fatḥ al‐Ṣufi

Name (arabic)	ابن أبي الفتح الصوفي
Name (translit)	Ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī
Alias	Abū al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī صاحب الزيج Šams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī ابن ابي الفتح محمد بن ابي الفتح الصوفى الشافعي شمس الدين أبو عبد الله محمّد بن أبي الفتح الصوفي
Flourished
Died	943H/1536J
Lived in	Egypt
Teacher of	Taqī al-Dīn al-Rāṣid Muḥammad ibn Dallāl al-Wafāʾī al-Suyūṭī Yaḥyá ibn ʿAlī al-Rifāʿī al-Zimāʿī al-Shāfīʿī
Notes	Ibn Abī al‐Fatḥ al‐Ṣūfī (fl. late 15th/early 16th centuries) was an important Egyptian astronomer whose treatises deal with astronomical instruments (some based on the work of Ibn al-Shāṭir) and timekeeping tables. He also put forth reworkings on Ulugh Beg's Zīj. His name and death date have sometimes been confused with his father who pursued similar studies and had a similar name.
Number in MAMS	888
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Abi_al-Fath_al-Sufi_BEA.htm
ismi_id	19999

Authored Works

9 works:

Astronomical Instruments

al-Jawāhir al-nayyirah fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt , الجواهر النيّرة في العمل بربع المقنطرات

al-Mufaṣṣil fī al-ʿamal bi-niṣf dāʾirat al-muʿaddil , المفصّل في العمل بنصف دائرة المعدّل

al-ʿAmal al-muṣaḥḥaḥ bi-al-rubʿ al-mujannaḥ , العمل المصحّح بالربع المجنّح

Dustūr yataḍammanu ḥisāb kusūf al-shams wāqiʿ fī yawm al-ithnayn 19 Shaʿbān 934 , دستور يتضمّن حساب كسوف شمس واقع في يوم الاثنين 19 شعبان 934

Nihāyat al-rutbah fī al-ʿamal bi-jadwal al-nisbah , نهاية الرتبة في العمل بجدول النسبة

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Bulūgh al-watar fī al-ʿamal bi-al-qamar , بلوغ الوتر في العمل بالقمر

Jadāwil fī al-tanjīm , جداول في التنجيم

Nubdhat al-isʿāf fī maʿrifah qaws al-khilāf , نبذة الإسعاف في معرفة قوس الخلاف

Zīj Muḥammad Ibn Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣūfī , زيج مجمّد بن أبي الفتح الصوفي

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.

Pp. 300-3 (no. 888).

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. 116-26 (no. 58).

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

2nd ed. Vol. 2 (1949), pp. 128-29; Suppl. 2 (1938), p. 159.

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. 58, 82-84 (C98).

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. 523-26, 548; Vol. 3, p. 41.

King, David, and Louis Janin. 1977. “Ibn Al-Shāṭir’s Ṣandūq al‐Yawāqīt: An Astronomical ’Compendium’”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 1: 187-256 (& 23 plates).

Reprinted in: King, David A. Islamic Astronomical Instruments, XII. London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.

Rénaud, Henri. 1932. “Additions Et Corrections à Suter Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber”. Isis 18 (1): 166-83.

Pp. 176-77.

Kâtip, Çelebi. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub Wa-Al-funūn. 2 vol. Istanbul: Maṭabiʻ Wikālat al-Maʿārif al-Jalīlah; Milli Eg‐itim Bakanlig‐i Yayinlari.

Vol. 1, cols. 127, 966-67, 970.

King, David. Fihris Al-maḫṭūṭāt Al-ʿilmiyyaẗ Al-maḥfūẓaẗ Bi-Dār Al-Kutub Al-Miṣriyyaẗ [A Catalogue of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library]. 2 vol. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation.

Vol. 1, pp. 1-314. Pp. 185, 189. Reprinted in: AnnArbor, 1963; "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Astronomie im Islam", edited by Fuat Sezgin. 2 vols. Frankfurt, 1986.

Bağdadlı, Ismāʻīl. Īḍāḥ Al-maknūn Fī Al-ḏayl ʿalā Kašf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub Wa-Al-funūn. 2 vol. Istanbul: Milli Eǧitim Basımevi (Department of Education).

Vol. 1, p. 197; Vol. 2, p. 530.

Bağdadlı, Ismāʻīl, and Rifat Bilge. Hadiyyat Al-ʿārifīn: Asmāʾ Al-muʾallifīn Wa-āthār Al-muṣannifīn Min Kašf Al-ẓunūn. 2 vol. Istānbūl: Wikālaẗ al-Maʿārif; Milli Eg‐itim Bakanlig‐i Yayinlari.

Vol. 2, pp. 198, 238, 621.