PERSON

Muʿīn al-Dīn al-Kāshī

Name (arabic)

معين الدين الكاشي

Name (translit)

Muʿīn al-Dīn al-Kāshī

Alias

Muʿīn al-Munajjim al-Kāšānī
Muʿīn al-Dīn al-Kāšānī

Flourished

802H/1400J

Lived in

Parent of

Notes

Muʿīn al-Dīn al-Kāšī and Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Kāshī supervised the building of the Samarkand observatory of Ulugh Beg.

Number in MAMS

835

ismi_id

323028

References

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Vol. 2, p. 500.

Voronovskiy, Dmitriy Georgiyevich. 1965. “Astronomy Sredney Azii Ot Muhammeda Al-Khawarazmi Do Ulugbeka I Yego Shkoly (9-16 v.)”. In Iz Istorii Uz Pokhi Ulugbeka, ed. A. K. Arendsa, 100-172. Tashkent: N/A.

P. 129.

Qary-Niyazov, Tashmuhammed Niyaz ughli. 1947. Observatoriya Ulugbeka V Svete Novykh Dannykh. Trudy Nauchnoy Sessii AN Uz. SSR. Tashkent: N/A.

Pp. 97, 147, 176.