ISMI Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

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

Bolt, Marvin. 2007. “ʿAli Ibn ʿĪsā Al-Asṭurlābī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 1:34. New York: Springer-Verlag.
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. 28 (no. 47).

King, David. 2000. “Too Many Cooks . A New Account of the Earliest Muslim Geodetic Measurements”. Suhayl 1: 207-42.

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

Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

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

Berggren, J.Lennart. 1986. Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Pp. 170-73.

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 32.

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 32.

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, pp. 49-50.

Suter, Heinrich. 1981. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke. Amsterdam: APA; Oriental Press.

P. 13.

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

Pp. 143-44.

Sayılı, Aydın. 1960. The Observatory in Islam and Its Place in the General History of the Observatory. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi (Turkish Historical Society).

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.

Barani, Syed. 1951. “Muslim Researches in Geodesy”. In Al-Bīrūnī Commemoration Volume, A.H. 362–A.H. 1362, 1-52. Calcutta: Iran Society.

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

Rénaud, Henri. 1932. “Additions Et Corrections à Suter Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber”. Isis 18 (1): 166-83.

P. 170.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.

P. 284.

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. 366.

Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 1, p. 566.