Niẓām al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bīrjandī

PERSON

Niẓām al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bīrjandī

Name (arabic)	نظام الدين عبد العلي بن محمد بن الحسين البيرجندي
Name (translit)	Niẓām al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Bīrjandī
Alias	ʿAbd al-ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Barjandī Elbarǵandī Birjandī ملا علی برجندی عبد العلى برجندي Barcandī Niẓam al-Dīn al-Birjandī Bircandī Bercendī عبد العلي بن محمد بن الحسين ملا علي برجندي
Born	830H/1426J
Flourished	830H/1426J
Died	934H/1527J
Lived in	Iran Trebizond Istanbul Isfahan
Student of	Manṣūr ibn Muʿīn al-Dīn al-Kāshī
Number in MAMS	938
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Birjandi_BEA.htm
ismi_id	348855

Authored Works

4 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Sharḥ al-Shamsiyyah fī al-ḥisāb , شرح الشمسية في الحساب

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Sharḥ-i Zīj-i Ulugh Beg (al-Bīrjandī) , شرح زيج اُلغ بيك

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Ḥāshiyat al-Birjandī ʿalá Sharḥ Qāḍīzāde al-Rūmī ʿalá al-Mulakhkhaṣ , حاشية البرجندي على شرح قاضي زاده الرومي على الملخّص

Sharḥ al-Tadhkirah al-Naṣīriyyah , شرح التذكرة النصيريّة

Manuscript Witnesses copied by this person

1 witnesses:

Asās al-qawāʿid fī uṣūl al-fawāʾid_Patna_Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library_NONE (Patna)_2417

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.

Pp. 314-316 (no. 938).

Pingree, David, and Takanori Kusuba, eds. 2002. Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit: Al-Birjandi on Tadhkira II, Chapter 11, and Its Sanskrit Translation. Leiden; Boston: E. J. Brill.

The Arabic text and Sanskrit translation of Birjandī's Sharḥ al‐Tadhkira, Book II, Chap. 11; also contains commentary.

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin, Ramazan Şeşen, and Cevat İzgi, eds. 1999. Osmanlı Matematik literatürü Tarihi = History of Mathematical Literature During the Ottoman Period. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Vol. 1, pp. 55-56.

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Vol. 1, pp. 101-111 (no. 48).

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

Vol. II, p. 591.

Ragep, F. Jamil. 1993. Nasīr al‐Dīn al‐Ṭūsī’s Memoir on Astronomy (al‐Tadhkira Fī ʿilm al‐hayʾa). 2 vol. New York: Springer‐Verlag.

Vol. 1, p. 63.

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. 159.

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. II, pp. 541-543.

Rahman, Abdur, M Alvi, Shabbir Ghori, and Samba Murthy. 1982. Science and Technology in Medieval India : A Bibliography of Source Materials in Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy.

Pp. 275, 279, 339-340, 383.

Saliba, George. 1979. “The Original Source of Quṭb Al-Dīn Al-Shīrāzī’s Planetary Model”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 3: 3-18.

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).

P. 267.

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.

Pp. 187-188.

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. I, p. 210; vol. II, p. 269; vol. IV, p. 471; vol. VI, pp. 114, 374.

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

Vol. II, pp. 80-82, 135.

P. 180.