PERSON

Abū al-Ḥasan al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl al-Māzinī al-Baṣrī

Name (arabic)

أبو الحسن النضر بن شميل المازني البصري

Name (translit)

Abū al-Ḥasan al-Naḍr ibn Shumayl al-Māzinī al-Baṣrī

Alias

Naḍr ibn Shumayl

Flourished

Died

202H/818J

Lived in

Number in MAMS

25

ismi_id

103651

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomy: Anwāʾ

Astronomy: General

Kitāb al-shams wa-al-qamar , كتاب الشمس والقمر

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. 18 (no. 25).

Pellat, Charles. 1986. “Anwāʾ”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2nd ed., 1:523-24. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
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. 36 (no. 11.1).

Krachkovsky, Ignaty. 1957. “Arabskaya Geograficheskaya Literatura”. In Izbrannye Sochineniya. Vol. 4. Moscow-Leningrad.

Pp. 119-20.

Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub waʾl-funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum a Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 3, p. 174; vol. 4, pp. 324, 330; vol. 5, pp. 53, 72, 95, 105, 112, 125, 152, 574.