PERSON
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Munajjim al-Wābkanawī al-Ḥimādhī
| Name (arabic) |
شمس الدين محمّد بن علي بن الحسين المنجّم الوابكنوي الحماذي
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| Name (translit) |
Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Munajjim al-Wābkanawī al-Ḥimādhī
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| Alias |
Wābkanawī
الحماذي
Σàμψ Πουχáρησ
Shams al‐Munajjim Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Khwāja al‐Wābkanawī
Shams al-Dīn al-Bukhārī
Shams Bukharos
Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Munajjim al-Ḥimādhī
Shams al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Munajjim al‐Wābkanawī al-Ḥimādhī
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| Born |
652H/1254J
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| Flourished |
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| Lived in |
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| Notes |
Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥimādhī (MAMS no. 652) is the same person as Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī Khwāja Shams al-Munajjim al-Wābkanawī al-Bukhārī (MAMS no. 709). He should be distinguished from Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Mubārak Shāh Mīrak al-Buḫārī (MAMS no. 694), who is the same person as Mubārak Shāh (MAMS no. 753). |
| Number in MAMS |
652, 709
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| ismi_id |
8098
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Authored Works
4 works:Astronomical Instruments
Kitāb-i maʿrifat-i asṭurlāb-i shimālī , كتاب معرفت سطرلاب شمالي
Astronomical Tables/zījes
al-Zīj al-muḥaqqaq al-sulṭānī ʿalá uṣūl al-raṣad al-Īlkhānī , الزيج المحقّق السلطاني على أصول الرصد الإيلخاني
Astronomy: General
Faṣl fī makth al-qamar , فصل في مكث القمر
Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Tibyān maqāṣid al-Tadhkirah , تبيان مقاصد التذكرة
References
Ragep, F. Jamil. 2014. “New Light on Shams: The Islamic Side of Σὰμψ Πουχάρης”. In Politics, Patronage, and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th - 15th Century Tabriz, ed. Judith Pfeiffer, 231-47. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
van Dalen, Benno. 2007. “Wābkanawī: Shams al‐Munajjim [Shams al‐Dīn] Muḥammad Ibn ʿAlī Khwāja al‐Wābkanawī [Wābkanawī]”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 2:1187-88. New York: Springer-Verlag.
But cf. Ragep [2014].
Mercier, Raymond. 2007. “Shams al‐Dīn al‐Bukhārī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 2:1047-48. New York: Springer-Verlag.
But cf. Ragep [2014].
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. 229 (no. 652); p. 245 (no. 709).
Pingree, David. The Astronomical Works of Gregory Chioniades. Corpus Des Astronomes Byzantins, Vol. 2. Vol. 1: The Zīj al-ʿAlāʾī (Part 1: Text, Translation, Commentary. Part 2: Tables). Amsterdam: J. C. Grieben.
Pp. 16-17.