PERSON
Simʿān ibn Sayyār al-Kābulī
| Name (arabic) |
سمعان بن سيّار الكابلي
|
| Name (translit) |
Simʿān ibn Sayyār al-Kābulī
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| Alias |
Simʿān ibn Sayyār
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| Flourished |
80H/700J
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| Notes |
Fl. 8th century, Kābul. He may be one of the translators of Ptolemy's Handy Tables commissioned by Muḥammad b. Khālid b. Yaḥyā al-Barmakī. |
| Number in MAMS |
13
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| ismi_id |
104429
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Authored Works
1 works:Astronomical Tables/zījes
Zīj (Simʿān ibn Sayyār) , زيج
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. 16 (no. 13).
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. 33 (no. 4.2).
Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Pp. 134-35.