PERSON

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad al-Thābitī al-Kharaqī

Name (arabic)

أبو محمد عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبّار بن محمد الثابتي الخرقي

Name (translit)

Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār ibn Muḥammad al-Thābitī al-Kharaqī

Alias

عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار بن محمد الثابتي الخرقي
ابو محمّد عبد الجبار بن عبد الجبار بن محمّد الثابتي الخرقي
al-Kharaqī, Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī
Hırakî, Muhammed il-Hüseyniy
Hirekī
Hırakî
al-Kharaqī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad
Hirakī
al-Kharaqī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abī Bishr al-Marwazī

Born

477H/1084J

Died

533H/1138J

Born in

Lived in

Notes

ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Kharaqī has often been confused with an older contemporary, a [Shams al‐Dīn] Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn Abī Bashar al-Kharaqī (both sharing the same nisba). Sources of this misattribution seem to be Ḥājjī Khalīfa’s Kashf al Ẓunūn and Baghdādī’s Hadyat Hidāyat al-ʿArifīn. Kharaqī explicitly credits Ibn al-Haytham as being an important influence for motivating him to consider solid spheres as opposed to imaginary circles in astronomy.

Number in MAMS

435, 469

Biography URL

ismi_id

39447

Authored Works

5 works:

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Kitāb al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah , كتاب التبصرة في علم الهيئة
Muntahá al-idrāk fī taqāsīm al-aflāk , منتهى الإدراك في تقاسيم الأفلاك
Umda li-ūlī al-albāb , عُمد لولي الباب

Mathematics: General

al-Risālah al-maghribiyyah , الرسالة المغربيّة
al-Risālah al-shāmilah , الرسالة الشاملة

References

Ragep, Sally. 2016. Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ: An Islamic Introduction to Ptolemaic Astronomy. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Ragep, Sally. 2015. “Maḥmūd Ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʿUmar Al-Jaghmīnī’s Al-Mulakhkhaṣ Fī Al-hayʾa Al-basīṭa: An Edition, Translation, and Study”. McGill University.

S. Ragep discusses Kharaqī's influence on al-Jaghmīnī.

Ghalandari, Hanif. (2012) 2012. “A Survey of the Works of ‘Hayʾa’ in the Islamic Period With a Critical Edition, [Persian] Translation and Commentary of the Treatise Muntahā Al-Idrāk Fī Taqāsīm Al-Aflāk Written by Bahāʾ Al-Dīn Al-Kharaqī (d. 553 AH 1158 AD) [PhD]”. The Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University (SRBIAU). Tehran: The Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University (SRBIAU).
Langermann, Y.Tzvi. 2007. “Kharaqī: Shams Al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Al-Kharaqī [al-Khiraqī]”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 1:627. 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. 180 (no. 469) and 173 (no. 435).

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, pp. 33, 36, 38, 42, 54, 67; vol. 2, pp. 454, 467-8, 470, 471, 495, 508, 509.

Wiedemann, Eilhard. 1978. “Al-Kharakī”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2ndnd ed., 4:1059. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Wiedemann, Eilhard, and K. Kohl. “Einleitung Zu Werken Von Al-Charaqī”. Sitzungsberichte Der Physikalisch‐Medizinischen Sozietät in Erlangen 58-59: 203-18.

Reprinted in: Wiedemann, E. "Aufsätze zur arabischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte." Vol. 2, pp. 628–643. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1970. German translations of introductions to Kharaqī's two books.