PERSON

Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Kammād

Name (arabic)

أبو جعفر أحمد بن يوسف بن الكمّاد

Name (translit)

Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Kammād

Alias

Ibn al-Kammād
Abū al-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Kammād al-Andalusī
Ibn Ḥammād

Flourished

11xx CE/ 04xx AH

Number in MAMS

530

Biography URL

ismi_id

15498

Authored Works

3 works:

Astrology

Kitāb mafātīḥ al-asrār , كتاب مفاتيح الأسرار

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Kawr ʿalỳ-al-dawr, al-Amad ʿalỳ-al-abad , الكور على الدور، الأمد على الأبد

Astronomy: General

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Comes, Mercè. 2004. “Ibn Al‐Kammād”. In Enciclopedia de la Cultura Andalusí. Biblioteca de Al‐Andalus, 3:732-34. Almería: Fundación Ifn Tufaye.

No. 724.

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. 194 (no. 530).

Calvo, Emilia, and S. Ansari. 2002. “Ibn Al‐Kammād’s Astronomical Work in Ibn Al‐Hāʾim’s Al‐Zīj Al‐kāmil Fī‐ʾl‐taʿālīm: I. Solar Year, Trepidation, and Timekeeping”. In Science and Technology in the Islamic World, 21:109-20. Turnhout: Brepols.

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Comes, Mercè. 2001. “Ibn Al‐Hāʾim’s Trepidation Model”. Suhayl 2: 291-408.
Mancha, J. 1998. “On Ibn Al-Kammād’s Table for Trepidation”. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 52: 1-12.
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P. 136.

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P. 132.

Vallicrosa, José. 1942. Las Traducciones Orientales en Los Manuscritos de la Biblioteca Catedral de Toledo. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigationes Científicas.

Pp. 231-47.

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P. 196.

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