Malik al-Ashraf Mumahhid al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Rasūl
| Name (arabic) |
ملك الأشرف ممهّد الدين عمر بن يوسف بن عمر بن علي بن رسول
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| Name (translit) |
Malik al-Ashraf Mumahhid al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Rasūl
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| Alias |
Ashraf
al-Ashraf ʿUmar
ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar
Rasulid Sultan al-Ashraf
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| Flourished |
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| Died |
696H/1296J
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| Notes |
al‐Ashraf ʿUmar, the third of the Rasulid sultans in Yemen. See https://tabsira.hypotheses.org/ for a website devoted to him and his work. |
| Number in MAMS |
685
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| Biography URL |
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| ismi_id |
42360
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Authored Works
3 works:Astronomical Instruments
Astronomy: General
TECHNOLOGY
References
On Ashraf's almanac.
P. 238 (no. 685).
P. 132 (E8).
On Ashraf in the context of Yemeni astronomy.
On Ashraf's astrolabe and the treatise on its construction. Repr.: King, Islamic Astronomical Instruments, II. London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.
Supplement in King, Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Arabisch–Islamischen Wissenschaften 4 (1987–1988): 268–269
On the magnetic compass.