PERSON

Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr ʿAlī ibn al-Sarrāj al-Ḥamāwī

Name (arabic)

شهاب الدين أحمد بن أبي بكر علي بن السرّاج الحماوي

Name (translit)

Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr ʿAlī ibn al-Sarrāj al-Ḥamāwī

Alias

احمد بن السراج
ابن السرّاج
ابن سراج

Flourished

Died

763H/1362J

Lived in

Number in MAMS

732

ismi_id

23672

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Risālat al-asṭurlāb al-ghāʾib wa-al-jayb al-ghāʾib , رسالة الأسطرلاب الغائب والجيب الغائب
Risālat al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt , رسالة العمل بربع المقنطرات

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.

P. 250 (no. 732).

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. 60-1 (C26).