ISMI Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

PERSON

Fakhr al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Khaṭīb al-Rāzī

Name (arabic)

فخر الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن عمر بن الحسين بن الخطيب الرازي
Name (translit)

Fakhr al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Khaṭīb al-Rāzī
Alias

Ibn al-Khaṭīb
الامام فخر الدين محمد الرازي
Born

544H/1150J
Died

606H/1209J
Born in

Rayy
Lived in

Rayy
Teacher of

Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn abī Naṣr al-Isfarāʾinī al-Nīsābūrī
Number in MAMS

535
ismi_id

29372

Authored Works

7 works:

Astrology

al-Ikhtiyārāt al-ʿAlāʾiyyah , الإختيارات العلائيّة
al-Sirr al-maktūm fī mukhāṭabat al-nujūm , السرّ المکتوم في مخاطبة النجوم

Astronomy: General

Sharḥ Rāzī lil-maqāmah , شرح رازي للمقامة
[Poem on the Visibility of Mercury]

Categorization of the Sciences

Ḥadāʾiq al-anwār fī ḥaqāʾiq al-asrār

Geometry: General

Kitāb fī al-handasah (Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī) , كتاب في الهندسة

Mathematics: General

Sharḥ muṣādarāt Uqlīdis , شرح مصادرات أقليدس

References

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. 195-96 (no. 535).

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. 149.

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.

Vol. 2, pp. 362-64.

Suter, Heinrich. 1900. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke.. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen, Vol. 10. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.

Pp. 132-33.

Barhebraeus,. 1783. Des Gregorius Abulfaradsch Kurze Geschichte Der Dynastien; Oder, Auszug Der Allgemeinen Welt-Geschichte Besonders Der Geschichte Der Chalifen Und Mogolen. Tran. Georg Bauer. 2 vol.. Leipzig: A.G. Böhme.

P. 298.

Barhebraeus,. 1663. Historia Compendiosa Dynastiarvm. Tran. Edward Pococke. Oxford: Excudebat H. Hall.

P. 455.

Sarton, George. Introduction To The History Of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol.. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 2, p. 364.