Sibṭ al-Māridīnī: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr (Šams) al-Dīn al-Dimašqī Sibṭ al-Mārdīnī

PERSON

Sibṭ al-Māridīnī: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr (Shams) al-Dīn al-Dimashqī Sibṭ al-Mārdīnī

Name (arabic)	سبط المارديني: محمّد بن محمّد بن أحمد أبو عبد الله بدر (شمس) الدين الدمشقي سبط المارديني
Name (translit)	Sibṭ al-Māridīnī: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr (Shams) al-Dīn al-Dimashqī Sibṭ al-Mārdīnī
Alias	Mārdīnī شمس الدين الو عبد الله محمد سبط المارديني الشافعي بدر الدين بن محمد بن احمد بن محمد سبط المارديني الشافعي Ibn Sibṭ al-Māridīnī بدر الدين بن محمد بن احمد بن محمد سبط المارديني الشافعي سيدي محمد سبط المارديني سيدي محمد الصخري المارديني محمد سبط المارديني الموقت الشافعي محمد بن محمد بن احمد سبط المارديني الشافعى ابو عبد الله محمد سبط الشيخ جمال الدين المارديني
Born	826H/1423J
Died	895H/1490J
Born in	Damascus
Lived in	Syria Cairo Damascus
Died in	Cairo
Student of	Ibn al-Majdī: Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybughā al-Majdī al-Shāfiʿī
Notes	He was timekeeper of Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo.
Number in MAMS	873
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Sibt_al-Maridini_BEA.htm
ismi_id	21049

Authored Works

7 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Al-Ṭuraf al-saniyyah fī ḥisāb al-nisbah al-sittīniyyah , الطرف السنيّة في حساب النسبة الستّينيّة

Raqāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq fī maʿrifah ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʾiq , رقائق الحقائق في معرفة حساب الدرج والدقائق

Zubd al-Raqāʾiq fī ḥisāb al-daraj wa-al-daqāʾiq , زبد الرقائق في حساب الدرج والدقائق

Astronomical Instruments

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab (Sibṭ al-Māridīnī) , رسالة في العمل بالربع المجيب

Astronomy: Practical

Laqṭ al-jawāhir fī al-khuṭūṭ wa-al-dawāʾir , لقط الجواهر في الخطوط والدوائر

Inheritance

Kifāyat al-qanūʿ fī ikhtiṣār al-majmūʿ , كفاية القنوع في اختصار المجموع

Sharḥ al-Majmūʿ fī al-farāʾiḍ , شرح المجموع في الفرائض

References

King, David. 2008. “Al-Māridīnī, Jamāl Al-Dīn, and Badr Al-Dīn”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, 2nd ed., 143-44. Dordrecht/Boston/London: Springer.

De Young, Gregg. 2007. “Sibṭ al‐Māridīnī: Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr [Shams] al‐Dīn al‐Miṣrī al‐Dimashqī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas al., 1058. 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.

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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).

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

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

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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.

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Ṭūqān Qadrī. 1963. Turāth Al-ʿArab Al-ʿilmī Fī Al-riyāḍīyāt Wa-Al-Falak. Cairo: Dār al-Qalam.

Pp. 461-65.

Suter, Heinrich. 1902. “Nachträge Und Berichtigungen”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen 14: 157-85.

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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. 1, p. 146; vol. 2, pp. 218, 236, 253; vol. 3, pp. 11, 192, 233, 391; vol. 4, pp. 156, 319, 432, 496; vol. 5, pp. 205, 332, 345, 407.

Bursalı, Mehmet. Osmanlı müellifleri : Osmanlirki Zuhurandan Zamanimiza Kadar Gelen Ve Mesleklerinde Eser Yazan Türk Mashayih, Ulema, shu`ara Ve Udaba, Muarrihin, Atibba, Riyaziyun Ve Jughrafiyunki Muhtasar tercüme Hallariylah Eserlerine Dair malûmati kâfi Havidar. 3 vol. İstanbul: Matbaa-i Âmire.

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