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PERSON

Maʾmūn: Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd al-Maʾmūn

Name (arabic)

مأمون: أبو العبّاس عبد الله بن هارون الرشيد المأمون
Name (translit)

Maʾmūn: Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd al-Maʾmūn
Alias

Maʾmūn
Born

169H/786J
Flourished

169H/786J
Died

217H/833J
Born in

Baghdad
Lived in

Marw
Baghdad
Died in

Mersin/Tarsus
Dedicatee of

Al-Zīj al-Maʾmūnī al-mumtaḥān
Notes

The ʿAbbāsid Caliph Maʾmūn (r. 813-33), the son of Hārūn al‐Rashīd (r. 786-809), was known for his patronage of the mathematical sciences. He sponsored two sets of astronomical observations (one in Baghdad, the other in Damascus) with the intent of producing more precise parameters. The astronomical handbook with tables, "al-Zīj al-Maʾmūnī al-mumtaḥān," was dedicated to him (see Yaḥyā ibn Abī Manṣūr).
Number in MAMS

32
Biography URL

http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ma%27mun_BEA.htm
ismi_id

184524

Authored Works

2 works:

Astrology

Kitāb al-qurʿah al-Maʾmūniyyah , كتاب القرعة المأمونيّة

Geography: Practical

[Al-Maʾmūn's World Map]

References

Berggren, J.Lennart. 2007. “Maʾmūn: Abū Al-ʿAbbās ʿAbdallāh Ibn Hārūn Al-Rashīd”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 2:733. 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. 20 (no. 32).

Kunitzsch, Paul. 1997. “Al-Maʾmūn”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, 548-49. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic.
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.

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

P. 118.

Destombes, Marcel. 1956. “Note Sur Le Catalogue D’etoiles Du Calife Al-Mamoun”. In Actes Du VIIIe Congrès International d’histoire Des Sciences (Florence 3-9 Septembre 1956) , 309-12. Vinci [Italy]: Gruppo italiano di stori delle scienze.
Gogol, Nikolay. 1956. “Al-Maʾmūn”. In Sobraniye Sochineniy, 6:62-8. Moscow.
Lane-Poole, Stanley. 1894. The Mohammedan Dynasties. Chronological Genealogical Tables With Historical Introductions. Westminster: A. Constable and Company .
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, pp. 557-58.