ISMI Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

PERSON

Abū Muḥammad al-Sayfī

Name (arabic)

أبو محمد السيفي
Name (translit)

Abū Muḥammad al-Sayfī
Flourished

286H/900J
Number in MAMS

247
ismi_id

54824

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Al-Zīj al-mukhtaṣar , الزيج المختصر

Astronomy: General

[Treatise on the Construction of Circles of Azimuths]

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. 94 (no. 247).

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, p. 175.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 233.