PERSON

Rashīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd al-Jalīl al-ʿUmarī al-Waṭwāṭ

Name (arabic)

رشيد الدين أبو بكر أحمد بن إسحاق بن عبد الجليل العمري الوطواط

Name (translit)

Rashīd al-Dīn Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd al-Jalīl al-ʿUmarī al-Waṭwāṭ

Alias

رشيد الدين محمد بن محمد بن عبد الجليل العمرى
Rashīd al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jalīl al-ʿUmarī
Rashīd al-Dīn al-Waṭwāṭ

Flourished

Died

577H/1182J

Born in

Lived in

Died in

Number in MAMS

489

ismi_id

24670

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Bīst bāb fī ʿamal al-asṭurlāb , بيست باب في عمل الأسطرلاب

Astronomy: General

Risālah fī ʿilm al-ʿurūḍ (al-Waṭwāṭ) , رسالة في علم العروض

References

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Vol. 2, pp. 347-48.

Al-Bayhaqī, ʿAlī. 1935. Kitāb Tatimmat ṣiwān Al-ḥikmah. Ed. Mohammad Shafīʿ. Lahore: L. Ishwar Das, Registrar, University of the Panjab.

Pp. 166-68.

Wensinck, Arent. 1934. “Waṭwāṭ”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, 4:1228-29.
Browne, Edward. 1902. A Literary History of Persia. 4 vol. Cambridge: University Press.

Vol. 2, p. 333.

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.

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