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PERSON

Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī [al-Kāshānī]

Name (arabic)

غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي
Name (translit)

Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī [al-Kāshānī]
Alias

Kāshī, Ghiyāth al-Dīn
Kāshī
جمشيد بن مسعود الكاشانى
Born

787H/1385J
Flourished

Died

832H/1428J
Born in

Kashan
Lived in

Iran
Samarqand
Kashan
Shiraz
Died in

Samarqand
Teacher of

Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Qūshjī
Notes

Kāshī was an extremely accomplished mathematician, astronomer, and scientific instrument maker of the fifteenth century. He played a prominent role at the Samarqand madrasa and observatory founded by the Timurid prince Ulugh Beg. See also:http://www.jphogendijk.nl/arabsci/kashi.html .
Number in MAMS

802
Biography URL

http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Kashi_BEA.htm
ismi_id

2827

Authored Works

13 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

al-Risālah al-Muḥīṭiyyah , الرسالة المحيطيّة
al-Risālah al-watr wa-al-jayb , الرسالة الوتر والجيب
Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb , مفتاح الحساب
Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ , تلخيص المفتاح
Wujūh ʿamal al-ḍarb fī al-takht wa-al-turāb , وجوه العمل الضرب في التخت والتراب

Astronomical Instruments

Risālāh dar sharḥ-i ālāt-i raṣd , رساله در شرح آﻻت رصد

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Taʿrīb al-zīj , تعريب الزيج
Zīj al-tashīlāt wa-jadāwil , زيج التسهيلات وجداول

Astronomy: General

Nuzhat [Zubdat] al-ḥadāʾiq , نزهة [زبدة] الحدائق

Astronomy: Practical

Risālah fī maʿrifah samt al-qiblah , رسالة في معرفة سمت القبلة

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Mukhtaṣar dar ʿilm hayʿat , مختصر در علم هیأت
Sullam al-samāʾ fī ḥall al-ishkāl waqaʿa li-mutaqaddimīn fī al-ābʿād wa-al-ajrām , سُلَم السماء في حلّ الشكال وقع للمُتقدّمين في الابعاد والجرام

MATHEMATICS

Fawāʾid maʿrifat taʿdīl mā bayn al-saṭrayn mansūbah ilá Jamshīd wa-Khalīlī wa-Ibn al-Majdī , فوائد معرفة تعديل ما بين السطرين منسوبة إلى جمشيد والخليلي وابن المجدي

References

Saliba, George. 2012. “KĀŠI, ḠIĀṮ-AL-DIN”. In Encyclopaedia Iranica, 64-67. New York: Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, Inc.
Schmidl, Petra G. 2007. “Kāshī: Ghiyāth (al‐Milla wa‐) al‐Dīn Jamshīd Ibn Masʿūd Ibn Maḥmūd al‐Kāshī [al‐Kāshānī] ”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 613-15. New York: Springer.
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. 269-71 (no. 802).

Kennedy, Edward. 1998. On the Contents and Significance of the Khāqānī Zīj by Jamshīd Ghiyāth Al-Dīn Al-Kāshī.. Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy. Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.
Bagheri, Mohammad. 1997. “A Newly Found Letter of Al-Kāshı̄ on Scientific Life in Samarkand”. Historia Mathematica 24 (3): 241-56.
Kennedy, Edward. 1985. “Spherical Astronomy in Kāshī’s Khāqānī Zīj”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 2: 1-46.
Kennedy, Edward, David King, and Mary Kennedy. 1983. Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences. Beirut: American University of Beirut.
Hamadanizadeh, Javad. 1980. “The Trigonometric Tables of Al-Kāshī in His Zīj-I Khāqānī”. Historia Mathematica 7: 38-45.
Kennedy, Edward, and Marie-Thérèse Debarnot. 1979. “Al-Kāshī’s Impractical Method of Determining the Solar Altitude”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 3: 219-27.

On the methods for the determination of the ascendant in the fifth treatise of Kāshī's Zīj.

Youschkevitch, A. P., and B. A. Rosenfeld. 1973. “Al-Kāshī”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 7:255-62. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Tichenor, Mark. 1967. “Late Medieval Two-Argument Tables for Planetary Longitudes”. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 26: 126-28.

Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 122-124.

Kennedy, Edward. 1964. “The Chinese-Uighur Calendar As Described in the Islamic Sources”. Isis 55 (4): 435-43.

Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 652-660.

Kennedy, Edward, W. Henning, and Ehsan Yarshater. 1962. “A Medieval Interpolation Scheme Using Second Order Differences”. In A Locust’s Leg: Studies in Honour of S. H. Taqizadeh, 117-20. London: Percy Lund, Humphries and Co.

Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 522-525.

Kennedy, Edward. 1961. “Al-Kāshī’s Treatise on Astronomical Observational Instruments”. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 20 (2): 98-108.

Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 394-404. A facsimile edition of Kāshī's Risāla dar sharḥ-i ālāt-i raṣd with translation and commentary.

Kennedy, Edward. 1960. “A Letter of Jamshīd Al-Kāshī to His Father: Scientific Research and Personalities at a Fifteenth Century Court”. Orientalia 29: 191-213.

Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 722-744.

Kennedy, Edward. 1960. The Planetary Equatorium of Jamshīd Ghiyāth al‐Dīn al‐Kāshī (d. 1429): An Edition of the Anonymous Persian Manuscript 75 <44b> In the Garett Collection at Princeton University; Being a Eescription of Two Computing Instruments, the Plate of Heaven. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Kennedy, Edward. 1956. “Parallax Theory in Islamic Astronomy”. Isis 47: 33-53.

Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 164-184.

Kennedy, Edward. “Treatise V of Kāshī’s Khāqānī Zīj: The Determination of the Ascendant”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 10: 123-46.