Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḫāzinī

PERSON

Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khāzinī

Name (arabic)	أبو الفتح عبد الرحمن الخازني
Name (translit)	Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khāzinī
Alias	ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Manṣūr Abū al-Fatḥ Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al‐Raḥmān al-Khāzinī Khāzinī
Flourished	أبو الفتح عبد الرحمن الخازني Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khāzinī
Lived in	Merv
Number in MAMS	476
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Khazini_BEA.htm
ismi_id	35984

Authored Works

4 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Risālah fī al-ālāt (Khāzinī) , رسالة في الآلات

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Zīj al-muʿtabar al-Sanjarī al-sulṭānī , الزيج المعتبر السنجري السلطاني

Wajīz al-zīj al-muʿtabar al-sulṭānī , وجيز الزيج المعتبر السلطاني

TECHNOLOGY

Kitāb mīzān al-ḥikmah , كتاب ميزان الحكمة

References

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Abattouy, Mohammed. 2007. “Khāzinī: Abū Al‐Fatḥ ʿAbd Al‐Raḥmān Al‐Khāzinī (Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd Al‐Raḥmān, ʿAbd Al‐Raḥmān Manṣūr)”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Astronomers, Springer Reference, 629-630. 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. 182-83 (no. 476).

Samsó, Julio. 1997. “Al-Khazinī”. In Encyclopaedia Of The History Of Science, Technology, And Medicine In Non-Western Cultures, 480-481.

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

Suppl. 1, 902.

Rozhanskaya, Miriam. 1992. ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Al-Khāzinī. Moscow.

Lorch, Richard. 1989. “Al-Ḫāzinī, Abūl-Fatḥ ʿAbdarraḥmān”. In Lexikon Des Mittelalters, 4:1983. München; Zürich: Artemis.

Baghirova, Sevinj. 1987. Sochineniye " Tatimmat Ṣiwān Al-Ḥikmah " Al-Bayhaki Kak Obrazets Srednevekovogo Ensiklopedicheskogo Spravochnika. Tashkent.

P. 94.

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. 339-41.

Lorch, Richard. 1980. “The Qibla-Table Attributed To Al-Khazini”. Journal For The History Of Arabic Science 4: 259-264.

Lorch, Richard. 1980. “Al-Khāzinī's Sphere That Rotates By Itself”. Journal For The History Of Arabic Science 4: 287-329.

Gillispie, Charles, and Robert Hall. 1973. “Al-Khāzinī”. In Dictionary Of Scientific Biography, 7:335-351. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

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).

Pp. 177-78.

Suter, Heinrich. 1900. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke.. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen, Vol. 10. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.

Pp. 122, 126.

Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-Ẓunūn ʿAn Asāmī Al-Kutub Waʾl-Funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum A Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol.. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 2, p. 636; vol. 4, p. 141; vol. 6, p. 243, 436.

Sarton, George. Introduction To The History Of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol.. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 2, pp. 216-17.