Ibn al-Aʿlam Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī al-Šarīf al-Ḥusaynī

PERSON

Ibn al-Aʿlam Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī al-Sharīf al-Ḥusaynī

Name (arabic)	ابن الأعلم أبو القاسم علي بن الحسين العلوي الشريف الحسيني
Name (translit)	Ibn al-Aʿlam Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-ʿAlawī al-Sharīf al-Ḥusaynī
Alias	Ibn al-Aʿlam al-Sharīf al-Ḥusaynī al-Baghdādī
Flourished
Died	374H/985J
Lived in	Baghdad
Number in MAMS	211
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_al-Alam_BEA.htm
ismi_id	363058

Authored Works

1 works:

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Zīj al-ʿAḍudī , الزيج العضدي

References

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