PERSON
Zayn al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mizzī al-Ḥanafī
| Name (arabic) |
زين الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عبد الرحيم المزّي الحنفي
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| Name (translit) |
Zayn al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mizzī al-Ḥanafī
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| Alias |
Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mizzī
Zayn al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mizzī
Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mizzī al-Ḥanafī
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| Born |
689H/1291J
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| Died |
749H/1349J
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| Notes |
Mizzī was a muwaqqit (timekeeper), an adept instrument-maker, and the author of several treatises on astronomical instruments. |
| Number in MAMS |
665, 715
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| Biography URL |
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| ismi_id |
39022
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References
Charette, François. 2007. “Mizzī: Zayn al‐Dīn [Shams al‐Din] Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn ʿAbd al‐Raḥīm al‐Mizzī al‐Ḥanafī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 792-93. New York: Springer-Verlag.
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. 233 (no. 665); pp. 246-47 (no. 715).