PERSON

Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf al-Māridīnī

Name (arabic)

جمال الدين عبد الله بن خليل بن يوسف المارديني

Name (translit)

Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khalīl ibn Yūsuf al-Māridīnī

Alias

Jamāl al-Dīn al-Mārdīnī
جمال الدين المارديني
Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḫalīl al-Māridīnī
ابى عبد الله جمال الدين المارجينى
رسالة في العمل بربع الدايرة المرسوم فيه المقنطرات

Died

809H/1406J

Student of

Notes

A disciple of Ibn al-Shāṭir (d. 777/1375), and may have been a muwaqqit at the Damascus Umayyad Mosque. He later became a muwaqqit at Cairo. He was also the teacher of Ibn al‐Majdī, one of the major Egyptian astronomers during the first half of the 15th c.. and the maternal grandfather of Sibt al‐Māridīnī.

Number in MAMS

775

ismi_id

8618

Authored Works

1 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Waraqāt (Risālah) fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-dāʾirah al-mawḍūʿ fīhi (alladhī ʿalayhi) al-muqanṭarāt , ورقات [رسالة] في العمل بربع الدائرة الموضوع فيه [الذي عليه] المقنطرات

References

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. 261(no. 775).