PERSON

Aḥmad ibn al‐Turkmānī

Name (arabic)

أحمد بن الترکماني

Name (translit)

Aḥmad ibn al‐Turkmānī

Alias

Ibn al‐Turkmānī
ابن الترکماني
Tāj al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿUṯmān ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muṣṭafā al-Jūzjānī
Aḥmad al-Jūzjānī
Ibn al-Turkumānī

Born

680H/1282J

Flourished

Died

743H/1343J

Lived in

Teacher of

Notes

Aḥmad ibn al‐Turkmānī, known as Ibn al‐Turkmānī, was an astronomer who composed a commentary on Kharaqī's astronomical treatise al‐Tabṣira fī ʿilm al‐hayʾa. Presumably, he influenced his son Kamāl al‐Dīn al‐Turkmānī (d. 758/1357), who wrote a Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ.

Number in MAMS

700

ismi_id

319987

Authored Works

1 works:

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Sharḥ al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah , شرح التبصرة في علم الهيئة

References

Fazlıoğlu, İhsan. 2007. “Kamāl al‐Dīn al‐Turkmānī: Kamāl al‐Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn ʿUthmān Ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn Muṣṭafā al‐Māridīnī al‐Turkmānī al‐Ḥanafī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 2:609. 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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