Muṣṭafỳ ibn ʿAlī al-Qusṭanṭīnī al-Rūmī al-Ḥanafī al-Muwaqqit

PERSON

Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAlī al-Qusṭanṭīnī al-Rūmī al-Ḥanafī al-Muwaqqit

Name (arabic)	مصطفی بن علي القسطنطيني الرومي الحنفي الموقّت
Name (translit)	Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAlī al-Qusṭanṭīnī al-Rūmī al-Ḥanafī al-Muwaqqit
Alias	ʿAlī al-Muwaqqit Koca Saatçı Qoja Saʿatī Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAlī al-Salīmī Muṣṭafā al-Salīmī Müneccimbaşi Muṣṭafā Çelebī
Flourished
Died	979H/1571J
Born in	Turkey
Lived in	Istanbul
Died in	Istanbul
Student of	Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsá Qāḍīzāde (Mīrim Čelebī)
Notes	Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAlī was an important figure of 16th-century Ottoman astronomy. He was nicknamed al-muwaqqit (the timekeeper) due to his extensive knowledge of astronomical timekeeping (ʿilm al‐mīqāt) and work on astronomical instruments. He came to be known as Koca Saatçi (grand timekeeper) of the Sultan Yavuz Selīm Mosque in Istanbul, and was appointed Müneccimbaşi (head astronomer) and thus became well known as Müneccimbaşi Muṣṭafā Çelebī. The fact that Muṣṭafā ibn ʿAlī wrote the majority of his works on astronomy and geography in Turkish, rather than Arabic, indicates his effort to reach a greater audience in Ottoman locations, especially in Istanbul, the Balkans, and Anatolia
Number in MAMS	990
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ali_al-Muwaqqit_BEA.htm
ismi_id	21971

Authored Works

8 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Faraḥ fazā [T] , فرح فزا

Ḥall dāʾirat muʿaddal al-nahār [T] , حلّ دائرة معدّل النهار

Kifāyat al-qanūʿ fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-maqṭūʿ , كفاية القنوع في العمل بالربع المقطوع

Kifāyat al-waqt bi-maʿrifat al-dāʾir wa-faḍlihi wa-al-samt [T] , کفاية الوقت بمعرفة الدائر وفضله والسمت

Astronomy: Practical

Tashīl al-mīqāt , تسهيل الميقات

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Tuḥfat al-zamān wa-kharīdat al-awān , تحفة الزمان وخريدة الأوان

Geography: Practical

Iʿlām al-ʿibād bi-ʿilm al-abʿād fī jughrāfīyā , إعلام العباد بعلم الأبعاد في جغرافيا

Iʿlām al-ʿibād fī aʿlām al-bilād [T] , إعلام العباد في أعلام البلاد

Manuscript Witnesses copied by this person

1 witnesses:

Iʿlām al-ʿibād fī aʿlām al-bilād [T]_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Hacı Mahmud Efendi_Suleymaiye Manuscript Library

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Vol. 1 (1941), cols. 118, 366, 407, 519; Vol. 2 (1943), col. 1501.