PERSON

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá al-Naqqāsh ibn al-Zarqālah al-Qurṭubī

Name (arabic)

أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن يحيی النقّاش بن الزرقالة القرطبي

Name (translit)

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá al-Naqqāsh ibn al-Zarqālah al-Qurṭubī

Alias

Arzachel
Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī
Ibn al-Zarqālī
al-Zarqālī
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá al-Naqqāsh al-Zarqālī al-Tujībī al-Ṭulayṭalī
Ibn al-Zarqālah
Azarquiel

Born

410H/1020J

Flourished

Died

493H/1100J

Born in

Lived in

Died in

Number in MAMS

402

Biography URL

ismi_id

65898

Authored Works

8 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Al-Shakkāziyyah , الشکّازيّة
Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-ṣafīḥah al-zījiyyah , کتاب العمل بالصفيحة الزيجيّة

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Al-Qānūn li-ʿUmāniyūs , القانون لِعُمانيوس
al-Zīj al-Ṭulayṭalī , الزيج الطليطلي

Astronomy: General

al-Madkhal ilá ʿilm al-nujūm (Zarqālī) , المدخل إلی علم النجوم
Maqālah fī ibṭāl al-ṭarīq allatī salakahā Biṭlīmyūs fī istikhrāj al-buʿd al-abʿad li-ʿUṭārid , مقالة في إبطال الطريق التي سلکها بطليميوس في إستخراج البُعد الأبعد لعطارد

OTHER

References

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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. 164-65 (no. 402).

Samsó, Julio. 2002. “Al-Zarkālī”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2ndnd ed., 11:461-62. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Aguilar, Roser. 2000. “The Theory of the Moon in the Al‐Zīj al‐Kāmil fī‐l‐Taʿālīm of Ibn al‐Hāʾim (ca. 1205)”. Suhayl 1: 71-99.
Calvo, Emilia. 1997. “Ibn Al-Zarqāllu”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine In Non-Western Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, 415-16. Dordrecht & Boston: Kluwer Academic.
King, David. 1997. “Shakkāziyya”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2ndnd ed., 9:251-53. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Sesiano, Jacques. 1996. Un Traité médiéval Sur Les carrés Magiques : De l’arrangement Harmonieux Des Nombres. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.
Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 1, p. 623; suppl. 1, p. 862.

Puig, Roser. 1996. “On the Eastern Sources of Ibn Al-Zarqalluh’s Orthographic Projection”. In From Baghdad to Barcelona: Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences in Honour of Juan Vernet, eds. Josep Casulleras and Samsó Julio, 2:737-53. Barcelona: Instituto Millás Vallicrosa de Historia de la Ciencia Arabe.
Samsó, Julio. 1994. “Sobre El Modelo De Azarquiel Para Determinar La Oblicuidad De La eclíptica”. In Islamic Astronomy and Medieval Spain, VIII. Aldershot: Variorum.
Samsó, Julio. 1994. “Trepidation in Al-Andalus in the 11th Century”. In Islamic Astronomy and Medieval Spain, VIII, 1-31. Aldershot: Variorum.
Samsó, Julio, Julio Samsó, and Eduardo Millás. 1994. “Ibn Al-Bannāʾ, Ibn Ishāq and Ibn Al-Zarqālluh’s Solar Theory”. In Islamic Astronomy and Medieval Spain, X. Aldershot: Variorum.
Mielgo, Honorino, and Julio Samsó. 1994. “Ibn Al-Zarqālluh on Mercury”. Journal for the History of Astronomy 25: 289-96.
Samsó, Julio. 1992. Las Ciencias De Los Antiguos En Al-Andalus. Madrid: Editorial MAPFRE.
Comes, Mercè. 1991. Ecuatorios andalusíes: Ibn Al-Samḥ, Al-Zarqālluh Y Abū-L-Ṣalt. Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona—Instituto de cooperación con el mundo árabe—Agencia Española de Cooperacíon International.
Puig, Roser. 1989. “A Geometric Device Used by Al-Zarqalluh for the Computation of Lunar Parallax”. In Actes Du Congres International d’Histoire Des Sciences XVIII, 2:14.
Burnett, Charles, and Raymond Mercier. 1987. “Astronomical Tables in the Twelfth Century”. In Adelard of Bath: An English Scientist and Arabist of the Early Twelfth Century, 87-118. London: The Warburg Institute.

Pp. 104-12.

King, David, George Saliba, and Gerald Toomer. 1987. “The Solar Theory of Az-Zarqāl: An Epilogue”. In From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, 513-19. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
Samsó, Julio. 1987. “Al-Zarqāl, Alfonso X and Peter of Aragon on the Solar Equation”. In From Deferent to Equant : A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E.S. Kennedy, eds. David King and George Saliba, 467-76. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
Aguilar, Roser. 1987. Los Tratados De construcción Y Uso De La Azafea De Azarquiel. Madrid: Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura.
King, David, George Saliba, and Lutz Richter-Bernburg. 1987. “Ṣāʿid, the Toledan Tables, and Andalusī Science”. In From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, 373-401. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
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King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 50.

Aguilar, Roser. 1985. “Concerning the Ṣafīḥa Shakkāziyya”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 2: 123-39.
Bū-ʿAlwān Ḥayāt. 1985. Ṣāʿid Ibn-Aḥmad Al-Andalusī: Kitāb ṭabaqāt Al-ʾumam. Beirut: Dār al-Ṭalīʻaẗ.

French translation: "Livre des catégories des nations." edited by Louis Cheikho and translated by Régis Blachère. Paris: Larose, 1935.

Al-Marrākushī, Abū. 1984. Jāmiʿ al‐mabādīʾ wa‐al‐ġāyāt Fī ʿilm al‐mīqāt. Ms. Ahmet III 3343, copied in 747 A.H. - facsimile. 2 vol. Frankfurt am Main: Maʿhad Taʾrīḫ al-ʿUlūm al-ʿArabiyyaẗ wa-al-Islāmiyyaẗ fī ʾiṭār Jāmiʿaẗ Frānkfūrt [Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University].

Facsimile edition of: Ms. Ahmet III 3343 (copied in 747 A.H.), Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi, Istanbul. Frankfurt am Main. Partially translated in Jean-Jacques Sédillot, Traité des instruments astronomiques des arabes, Paris, 1834-1835. (Reprinted in: Frankfurt, 1984); Louis-Amélie Sédillot, “Mémoire sur les instruments astronomiques des arabes,” Mémoires de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles‐lettres de l'Institut de France 1 (1894): 1-229. (Reprinted in: Frankfurt, 1989.).

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