PERSON

Farīd al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Shirwānī al-Fahhād

Name (arabic)

فريد الدين أبو الحسن علي بن عبد الكريم الشرواني الفهّاد

Name (translit)

Farīd al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Shirwānī al-Fahhād

Alias

ʿAlī al-Shirwānī

Flourished

Number in MAMS

443

ismi_id

33326

Authored Works

6 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Al-Zīj al-muḥkam , الزيج المحكم

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Al-Zīj al-Mughnī , الزيج المغني
Al-Zīj al-mustawī , ألزيج المستوي
Al-Zīj al-muʿtadil , الزيج المعتدل
Al-Zīj al-zāhir , الزيج الزاهر
Al-Zīj al-ʿAlāʾī al-raṣadī , الزيج العلائي الرصدي

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.

P. 175 (no. 443).

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, p. 329.

Kennedy, Edward. 1956. “A Survey Of Islamic Astronomical Tables”. Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society 46, pt. 2: 121-177.

Pp. 128, 132-35.

Krause, Max. 1936. “Stambuler Handschriften Islamischer Mathematiker”. In Quellen Und Studien Zur Geschichte Der Mathematik, Astronomie Und Physik, Abteilung B, Studien, 3:437-532. Berlin.

P. 519.

Lee, Samuel. 1882. “Notice Of The Astronomical Tables Of Mohammed Abibeker Al Farsi, Two Copies Of Which Are Preserved In The Public Library Of The University Of Cambridge”. Transactions Of The Cambridge Philosophical Society 1: 249-265.

P. 255.

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.

Vol. 3, pp. 567-68.