Ibn al-Ṣaffār: Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Ġāfiqī ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Andalusī

PERSON

Ibn al-Ṣaffār: Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Ghāfiqī ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Andalusī

Name (arabic)	أبو القاسم أحمد بن عبد الله بن عمر الغافقي بن الصفّار الأندلسي
Name (translit)	Ibn al-Ṣaffār: Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Ghāfiqī ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Andalusī
Alias	Ibn al-Ṣaffār Aḥmad ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Ghāfiqī
Flourished
Died	426H/1035J
Born in	Cordova
Lived in	Cordova Denia
Died in	Denia
Student of	Abū al-Qāsim Maslamah ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥāsib al-Faraḍī al-Majrīṭī
Teacher of	Muḥammad ibn Khayrat al-ʿAṭṭār Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Burghūth Abū Walīd Khālid ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Adīb
Number in MAMS	312, 325
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_al-Saffar_BEA.htm
ismi_id	75736

Authored Works

9 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Bāb fī ʿamal balāṭah yuʿrafu bi-hā sāʿāt al-nahār ʿalá al-ḥaqīqah , باب في عمل بلاطة يعرف بها ساعات النهار على الحقيقة

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb wa-dhikr ālātihi wa-ajzāʾihi , كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب وذكر آلاته وأجزائه

Risālah fī al-asṭurlāb , رسالة في الأسطرلاب

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Al-Zīj al-mukhtaṣar ʿalá ṭarīq al-Sindhind , الزيج المختصر على طريق السندهند

[Zīj]

Astronomy: General

Bāb fī maʿrifah khaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār , باب في معرفة خطّ نصف النهار

Bāb fī maʿrifah samt al-Qiblah bi-madīnah Qurṭubah , باب في معرفة سمت القبلة بمدينة قرطبة

Irtifāʿ al-shams ʿinda ḥulūlihā bi-ruʾūs al-burūj bi-Qurṭubah , إرتفاع الشمس عند حلولها برؤوس البروج بقرطبة

Mathematics: General

[Mathematical Treatise]

References

Rius, Mònica. 2007. “Ibn al‐Ṣaffār: Abū al‐Qāsim Aḥmad Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn ʿUmar al‐Ghāfiqī Ibn al‐Ṣaffār al‐Andalusī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 566-67. New York: Springer.

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. 121-22, 129-30 (nos. 312, 325).

Lorch, Richard, Lodi Nauta, and Arjo Vanderjagt. 1999. “The Treatise on the Astrolabe by Rudolf of Bruges”. In Between Demonstration and Imagination: Essays in the History of Science and Philosophy Presented to John D. North, 55-100. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 56-57, 59, 87.

King, David, Roshdi Rashed, and Régis Morelon. 1996. “Astronomy and Islamic Society: Qibla, Gnomonics and Timekeeping”. In Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, 1:128-84. London: Routledge.

Pp. 163-64.

Samsó, Julio, Roshdi Rashed, and Juan Vernet. 1996. “The Development of Arabic Science in Andalusia”. In Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, 1:243-75. London: Routledge.

Pp. 252, 254, 256.

Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 1, p. 224; suppl. 1, pp. 401-2.

Samsó, Julio, and Margarita Castells. 1995. “Seven Chapters of Ibn Al-Ṣaffār’s Lost Zīj”. Archives Internationales d’histoire Des Sciences 45 (35): 229-62.

Lorch, Richard, Gerhard Brey, Stefan Kirschner, and Christoph Schöner. 1994. “Ibn-As-Saffars Traktat über Das Astrolab in Der Ubersetzung Von Plato Von Tivoli”. In Cosmographica Et Geographica: Festschrift für Heribert M. Nobis Zum 70. Geburstag, eds. Bernhard Fritscher and Gerhard Brey, 1:125-80. Munich: Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften.

Vol. 13 (Algorismus).

Samsó, Julio. 1992. Las Ciencias De Los Antiguos En Al-Andalus. Madrid: Editorial MAPFRE.

Pp. 85, 87, 92, 96, 98, 102, 125, 133, 251, 314.

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. 46.

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. 225-26.

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

Pp. 250-1.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 356-57.

Goldstein, Bernard. 1971. “Ibn Al-Ṣaffār”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2nd ed., 3:924. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Ṭūqān Qadrī. 1963. Turāth Al-ʿArab Al-ʿilmī Fī Al-riyāḍīyāt Wa-Al-Falak. Cairo: Dār al-Qalam.

P. 342.

Vallicrosa, José. 1955. “Los Primeros Tratados De Astrolabio En La España árabe”. Revista Del Instituto Egipcio De Estudios Islámicos 3: 35-76.

Pp. 35-76.

Vallicrosa, José. 1947. El Libro De Los Fundamentos De Las Tablas astronómicas De R. Abraham Ibn Ezra. Madrid; Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Arias Montano.

Pp. 50-51.

Vallicrosa, José. 1944. “Sobre Un ‘Tratado De Astrolabio’ atribuído a R. Abraham Ibn ’Ezra”. Sefarad 4: 31-38.

Vallicrosa, José. 1942. Las Traducciones Orientales En Los Manuscritos De La Biblioteca Catedral De Toledo. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigationes Científicas.

Pp. 261-84.

Vallicrosa, José. 1940. “Un Nuevo Tratado De Astrolabio, De R. Abraham B. ʿEzra”. Al-Andalus 5: 1-29.

Cheikho, Louis, ed. 1912. Ibn Saʿīd Al-Andalusī Abī Al-Qāsim Saʿīd Ibn Aḥmad: Kitāb ṭabaqāt Al-ʾumam. Beirut: Imprimerie catholique.

P. 70.

Suter, Heinrich. 1902. “Nachträge Und Berichtigungen”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen 14: 157-85.

P. 169.

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.

P. 86.

Uṣaybiʻah, Ibn. 1884. ʿUyūn Al-anbāʾ Fī ṭabaqāt Al-aṭibbāʾof Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah. Ed. August Müller. 2 vol. Cairo‐Königsberg: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Wahbīyah.

Vol. 2, p. 40.

Bashkuwāl, Ibn. 1883. Aben-Pascualis Assila. Ed. Francisco Codera y Zaidín. Biblioteca Arabico-Hispana. Madrid: Apud Josephum de Rojas.

Vol. 1, p. 45.

Maqqarī, al-. 1855. Analectes Sur I’histoire Et Le Litterature Des Arabes d’Espagne. Eds. R. Dozy, G. Dugat, L. Krehl, and W. Wright. 2 vol. Leiden: Brill.

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Vol. 1, p. 716.