PERSON

Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Makkī

Name (arabic)

محمد بن علي المكّي

Name (translit)

Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Makkī

Flourished

237H/851J

Lived in

Notes

(From MAMS2): Al-Bīrūnī states that al-Makkiī observed an equinox in Nīshābūr in 852.

Number in MAMS

78

ismi_id

102125

Authored Works

2 works:

Astrology

al-Madkhal ilá ṣināʿat al-aḥkām , المدخل إلى صناعة الأحكام

Astronomy: General

Kitāb fī al-ḥujjah ʿalá istidārāt al-samāʾ wa-al-arḍ , كتاب في الحجّة على استدارات السماء والأرض

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. 37 (no. 78).

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, p. 66 (no. 44.1).

Sezgin, Fuat. 1979. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 7, Astrologie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 124.

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

Pp. 139-40.

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

P. 124.