PERSON

Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ṣadīq al-Bakrī al-Fawānisī

Name (arabic)

محمد بن عمر بن صديق البكري الفوانسي

Name (translit)

Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ṣadīq al-Bakrī al-Fawānisī

Alias

Muḥammad al-Fawānisī
al-Fawānisī
Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ṣadīq ibn ʿUmar al-Bakrī
Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Ṣadīq al-Bakrī al-Qawānisī

Flourished

390H/1000J

Lived in

Number in MAMS

446

ismi_id

34311

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Bughyat al-ṭullāb fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb , بغية الطلّاب في العمل بالأسطرلاب

Astronomy: General

Natījat al-afkār fī ʿamal al-layl wa-al-nahār , نتيجة الأفكار في عمل الليل والنهار

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. 446).

Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 2, p. 469; suppl. 2, 485.

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. 100.

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. 329-30.

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. 193.

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. 6, pp. 297-98.