PERSON

Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftāzānī

Name (arabic)

سعد الدين مسعود بن عمر التفتازاني

Name (translit)

Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftāzānī

Alias

Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī
سعد الدين التفتزاني
Taftāzānī
Taftazānī

Flourished

Died

791H/1388J

Lived in

Student of

Notes

Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd Taftāzānī was a student of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355) and Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 766/1364).

Number in MAMS

772

ismi_id

8727

Authored Works

2 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Sharḥ al-risālah al-Shamsīyah , شرح الرسالة الشمسية

Categorization of the Sciences

al-Mukhtaṣar sharḥ talkhīṣ al-miftāḥ , المختصر شرح تلخيص المفتاح

References

Fazlıoğlu, İhsan. 2008. “The Samarqand Mathematical-Astronomical School: A Basis for Ottoman Philosophy and Science”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 14: 3-68.

Esp. pp. 23-5 (VIII.1).

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. 260 (no. 772).