PERSON

Rabiʿ ibn Zayd al-Usquf

Name (arabic)

ربيع بن زيد الأسقف

Name (translit)

Rabiʿ ibn Zayd al-Usquf

Alias

Recemundus
Harib Filius Zeidi Episcopus

Flourished

Born in

Lived in

Notes

(From MAMS2): Christian bishop under Caliph al-Ḥakam II; known in medieval Europe as "Harib Filius Zeidi Episcopus."

Number in MAMS

250

ismi_id

55063

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomy: Anwāʾ

Kitāb al-anwāʾ (al-Usquf) , كتاب الأنواء

Astronomy: General

Kitāb tafṣīl al-zamān wa-maṣāliḥ al-abdān , كتاب تفصيل الزمان و مصالح الأبدان

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P. 95 (no. 250).

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. 175-76.

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. 69-70.

Dozy, Reinhart. 1866. “Die Cordovaner `Arib Ibn Sa`d Der Secretär Und Rabi Ibn Zaid Der Bischof”. Zeitschrift Der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 20: 590-609.
Maqqarī, al-. 1855. Analectes Sur I'histoire Et Le Litterature Des Arabes D'espagne. Eds. R. Dozy, Dugat, G., Krehl, L., and Wright, W. 2 vol.. Leiden: Brill.
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Vol. 1, p. 669.