PERSON

Badr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Wājid (al-Wāḥid?) ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī

Name (arabic)

بدر الدين عبد الواجد (الواحد؟) بن محمد بن محمد الحنفي

Name (translit)

Badr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Wājid (al-Wāḥid?) ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī

Alias

ʿAbd al-Wājid
ʿAbd al-Wājid b. Muḥammad al-Kūtāhī
ʿAbd al-Vācid b. Muḥammed

Born

730H/1330J

Flourished

730H/1330J

Died

837H/1434J

Born in

Lived in

Student of

Teacher of

Biography URL

ismi_id

1960

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomy: General

Sharḥ Sī faṣl [A] , شرح سي فصل

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

References

Ragep, F. Jamil. 2010. “Astronomy in the Fanārī-Circle: The Critical Background for Qāḍīzāde Al-Rūmī and the Samarqand School”. In Uluslararası Molla Fenârî Sempozyumu (4–6 Aralık 2009 Bursa) (International Symposium on Molla Fanārī, 4–6 Dec. 2009, Bursa), eds. Evfik Yücedoğru, Orhan Koloğlu, Murat Kılavuz, and Kadir Gömbeyaz, 165-76. Bursa: Bursa Büyükşehir Belediyesi.
Topdemir, Hüseyin. 2007. “ʿAbd al‐Wājid: Badr al‐Dīn ʿAbd al‐Wājid [Wāḥid] Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad al‐Ḥanafī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 1:5-6. 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.

Pp. 266-7 (no. 791).

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Vol. 1, pp. 22–24 (no. 7).

İzgi, Cevat. 1997. Osmanlı Medreselerinde İlim: Riyazī Ilimler. 2 vol. Istanbul: İz.

1:388, d.2.

Baltacı, Câhid. 1976. XV-XVI. Asırlar Osmanlı Medreseleri : teşkilât : Tarih. İstanbul: İrfan Matbaası.
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).

Pp. 246, 254-255.

Sayılı, Aydın. 1948. “The Wâjidîya Madrasa of Kütahya, a Turkish Medieval Observatory?”. Belleten 12 (47): 655-77.