ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsỳ al-Asṭurlābī al-Ḥarrānī

PERSON

ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsá al-Asṭurlābī al-Ḥarrānī

Name (arabic)	علي بن عيسی الأسطرلابي الحرّاني
Name (translit)	ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsá al-Asṭurlābī al-Ḥarrānī
Alias	al-Asṭurlābī
Flourished	200H/815J
Lived in	Baghdad Syria Damascus
Number in MAMS	47
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ali_ibn_Isa_al-Asturlabi_BEA.htm
ismi_id	105546

Authored Works

4 works:

Astrology

Risālah fī ibṭāl ṣināʿah aḥkām al-nujūm , رسالة في إبطال صناعة أحکام النجوم

Astronomical Instruments

Risālat al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb , رسالة العمل بالأسطرلاب

Risālat al-ʿamal bi-al-ṣafīḥah al-āfāqiyyah , رسالة العمل بالصفيحة الآفاقيّة

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-ṣafīḥah al-qamariyyah wa-al-ḥuqqah al-kusūfiyyah , رسالة في العمل بالصفيحة القمريّة والحقّة الکسوفيّة

References

P. 170.

P. 13.

Vol. 3, p. 366.

P. 284.

Vol. 1, p. 250; supplement, vol. 1, p. 394.

P. 32.

Includes transcriptions and an analysis of Arabic primary sources, as well as translations.

Provides translated texts related to ʿAlī ibn ʿĪsā's involvement with measuring the Earth.

P. 28 (no. 47).

Vol. 1, p. 566.

See Chap. 2, “Al Mamûn's Observatory Building Activity,” pp. 50-87, for a valuable discussion, beginning with a thorough analysis of early Islamic astronomical observations.

Pp. 143-44.

Pp. 170-73.

P. 32.

Vol. 2, pp. 49-50.