PERSON
Banū Amājūr
| Name (arabic) |
بنو أماجور
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| Name (translit) |
Banū Amājūr
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| Alias |
Amājūr Family
Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbdallah ibn Amājur al-Turkī al-Harawī
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī
ʿAlī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Amājūr
Mufliḥ ibn Yūsuf
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| Flourished |
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| Lived in |
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| Notes |
The "Amājūr Family" includes Abū al‐Qāsim ʿAbd Allāh ibn Amājūr al‐Turkī al‐Harawī, his son Abū al‐Ḥasan ʿAlī, a certain ʿAlī ʿAbd Allāh ibn Amājūr, and Abū al‐ Ḥasan's freed slave Mufliḥ ibn Yūsuf. |
| Number in MAMS |
157
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| Biography URL |
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| ismi_id |
63770
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Authored Works
11 works:Astronomical Tables/zījes
al-Zīj al-badīʿ , الزيج البديع
al-Zīj al-khāliṣ , الزيج الخالص
Al-Zīj al-mamarrāt , الزيج الممرّات
al-Zīj al-muzannir , الزيج المزنّر
Al-Zīj al-Sindhind , الزيج السندهند
Kitāb zīj al-Marrīkh ʿalá al-taʾrīkh al-Fārisī , کتاب زيج المرّيخ علی التأريخ الفارسي
Rasāʾil zīj Ḥabash taṣḥīḥ Abī al-Qāsim ibn Amājūr , رسائل زيج حبش تصحيح أبي القاسم بن أماجور
Zīj al-ṭaylasān li-Abī al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Amājūr , زيج الطيلسان لأبي القاسم علي بن أماجور
Astronomy: General
Kitāb al-qinn , کتاب القنّ
Astronomy: Practical
Jawāmiʿ aḥkām al-kusūfāt wa-qirānāt al-kawākib , جوامع أحکام الکسوفات وقرانات الکواکب
Kitāb zād al-musāfir , كتاب زاد المسافر
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