PERSON

Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khāzinī

Name (arabic)

أبو الفتح عبد الرحمن الخازني

Name (translit)

Abū al-Fatḥ ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khāzinī

Alias

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Manṣūr
Abū al-Fatḥ
Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al‐Raḥmān al-Khāzinī
Khāzinī

Flourished

493H/1100J

Lived in

Number in MAMS

476

Biography URL

ismi_id

35984

Authored Works

4 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Risālah fī al-ālāt (Khāzinī) , رسالة في الآلات

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Zīj al-muʿtabar al-Sanjarī al-sulṭānī , الزيج المعتبر السنجري السلطاني
Wajīz al-zīj al-muʿtabar al-sulṭānī , وجيز الزيج المعتبر السلطاني

TECHNOLOGY

Kitāb mīzān al-ḥikmah , كتاب ميزان الحكمة

References

Wiedemann, Eilhard. 2012. “Al-Khāzinī”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam.
Abattouy, Mohammed. 2007. “Khāzinī: Abū al‐Fatḥ ʿAbd al‐Raḥmān al‐Khāzinī (Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al‐Raḥmān, ʿAbd al‐Raḥmān Manṣūr)”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer Reference, 629-30. New York: Springer.
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. 182-83 (no. 476).

Samsó, Julio. 1997. “Al-Khazinī”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine In Non-Western Cultures, 480-81.
Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Suppl. 1, 902.

Rozhanskaya, Miriam. 1992. ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān Al-Khāzinī. Moscow.
Lorch, Richard. 1989. “Al-Ḫāzinī, Abūl-Fatḥ ʿAbdarraḥmān”. In Lexikon Des Mittelalters, 4:1983. München; Zürich: Artemis.
Baghirova, Sevinj. 1987. Sochineniye " Tatimmat Ṣiwān Al-ḥikmah " Al-Bayhaki Kak Obrazets Srednevekovogo Ensiklopedicheskogo Spravochnika. Tashkent.

P. 94.

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. 339-41.

Lorch, Richard. 1980. “Al-Khāzinī’s Sphere That Rotates by Itself”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 4: 287-329.
Lorch, Richard. 1980. “The Qibla-Table Attributed to Al-Khazini”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 4: 259-64.
Gillispie, Charles, and Robert Hall. 1973. “Al-Khāzinī”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 7:335-51. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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).

Pp. 177-78.

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. 122, 126.

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. 2, p. 636; vol. 4, p. 141; vol. 6, p. 243, 436.

Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 2, pp. 216-17.