Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar ibn Ismāʿīl al-Isfizārī

PERSON

Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar ibn Ismāʿīl al-Isfizārī

Name (arabic)	أبو حاتم المظفّر بن إسماعيل الإسفزاري
Name (translit)	Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar ibn Ismāʿīl al-Isfizārī
Alias	Isfizārī Muẓaffar al-Ismāʿīl ِِal-Muẓaffar al-Asfizārī
Flourished	أبو حاتم المظفّر بن إسماعيل الإسفزاري Abū Ḥātim al-Muẓaffar ibn Ismāʿīl al-Isfizārī
Student of	Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyāmī al-Nīshāpūrī
Number in MAMS	423
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Isfizari_BEA.htm
ismi_id	31986

Authored Works

6 works:

Mathematics: Applied

Muqaddimah fī al-misāḥah , مقدمة في المساحة

Mathematics: General

Ikhtiṣār fī Uṣūl Uqlīdis , إختصار في أصول أقليدس

TECHNOLOGY

Fī marākiz al-athqāl wa-ṣanʿat al-qabbān , في مراكز الأثقال وصنعة القبّان

Fī ṣanʿah aʿḍāʾ mīzān al-ḥikmah , في صنعة أعضاء ميزان الحكمة

Irshād dhawī al-ʿirfān ilá ṣināʿat al-qabbān , إرشاد ذوي العرفان إلى صناعة القبّان

Kitāb al-ḥiyal (al-Isfizārī) , كتاب الحيل

References

Abattouy, Mohammed. 2007. “Isfizārī: Abū Ḥātim Al‐Muẓaffar Ibn Ismāʿīl Al‐Isfizārī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Astronomers, Springer Reference, ed. Thomas Hockey, 577-578. New York: Springer.

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.

P. 171 (no. 423).

Abattouy, Mohammed. 2001. “Greek Mechanics In Arabic Context: Thābit Ibn Qurra, Al‐Isfizārī And The Arabic Traditions Of Aristotelian And Euclidean Mechanics”. Science In Context 14 (1/2): 179-247.

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Kurd, ʿAlī. 1988. ʿAlī Ibn Zayd Al‐Bayhaqī: Tārīkh Ḥukamāʾ Al-Islām. Damascus: Majmaʿ al-Lughah al-ʿArabīyah [Arabic Language Academy].

Contains a paragraph on al-Isfizārī.

Baghirova, Sevinj. 1987. Sochineniye " Tatimmat Ṣiwān Al-Ḥikmah " Al-Bayhaki Kak Obrazets Srednevekovogo Ensiklopedicheskogo Spravochnika. Tashkent.

P. 78.

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Vol. 2, pp. 321-22.

Al‐Isfizārī, Abū. 1977. Risālah‐I Āthār‐Iʿulwī [Meteorological Treatise]. Tehran.

On his meteorological treatise.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (Gas), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 110.

Gillispie, Charles, Boris Rozenfeld, and Adolf Youschkevitch. 1973. “Al‐Khayyāmī”. In Dictionary Of Scientific Biography, 7:323-334. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Ṭūqān, Qadrī. 1963. Turāth Al-ʿArab Al-ʿIlmī Fī Al-Riyāḍīyāt Wa-Al-Falak. Cairo: Dār al-Qalam.

P. 356.

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).

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.

P. 114.

Storey, Charles, and François De Blois. Persian Literature: A Bio‐Bibliographical Survey. 5 vol.. London: Luzac.

Vol. 2, pp. 495-97.

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. 204.