Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Mursī al-Andalusī al-Tūnisī al-Awsī ibn al-Raqqām

PERSON

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Mursī al-Andalusī al-Tūnisī al-Awsī ibn al-Raqqām

Name (arabic)	أبو عبد أللّه محمد بن إبراهيم بن علي بن أحمد بن يوسف المرسي الأندلسي التونسي الأوسي بن الرقّام
Name (translit)	Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Mursī al-Andalusī al-Tūnisī al-Awsī ibn al-Raqqām
Alias	Ibn al-Raqqām ابن الرقّام Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Awsī ibn al-Raqqām
Born	637H/1240J
Flourished
Died	715H/1315J
Lived in	Algeria Tunis Granada
Died in	Granada
Number in MAMS	670
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_al-Raqqam_BEA.htm
ismi_id	40908

Authored Works

7 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Manẓūmah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb , منظومة في العمل بالأسطرلاب

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Zīj al-mustawfī , الزيج المستوفي

al-Zīj al-qawīm fī funūn al-taʿdīl wa-al-taqwīm , الزيج القويم في فنون التعديل والتقويم

Al-Zīj al-shāmil fī tahdhīb al-kāmil , الزيج الشامل في تهذيب الكامل

Astronomy: General

Risālah fī ʿilm al-ẓilāl , رسالة في علم الظلال

[Treatise on Instruments Partially Invented or Improved by Him]

Mathematics: General

Taʾlīf fī al-taksīr , تأليف في التكسير

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Casulleras, Josep. 2007. “Ibn al‐Raqqām: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm Ibn ʿAlī Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf al‐Mursī al‐Andalusī al‐Tūnisī al‐Awsī Ibn al‐Raqqām”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas al., 563-4. 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.

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Kennedy, Edward. 1997. “The Astronomical Tables of Ibn Al-Raqqām, a Scientist of Granada”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 11: 35-72.

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Vol. 2, p. 378.

Abdulrahman, Muhammad. 1996. “Ḥisāb aṭwāl al‐kawākib Fī al‐Zīj al‐shāmil Fī tahdhīb al‐kāmil li‐Ibn al‐Raqqām”. University of Barcelona.

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Carandell, Juan. 1988. Risāla Fī ʿilm Al-ẓilāl De Muhammad Ibn Al-Raqqām Al-Andalusī. Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona, Instituto" Millás Vallicrosa" de Historia de la Ciencia Arabe.

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Puig, Roser. 1984. “Ciencia Y técnica En La Iḥāṭa De Ibn-Al-Jaṭīb. Siglos XIII Y XIV”. Dynamis 4: 65-79.

Carandell, Juan. 1984. “An Analemma for the Determination of the Azimuth of the Qibla in the Risāla Fī ʿilm al‐ẓilāl of Ibn Al-Raqqām”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 1: 61-72.

Carandell, Juan. 1984. “Trazado De Las Curvas De oración En Los Cuadrantes Horizontales En La Risāla Fī ʿilm al‐ẓilāl De Ibn Al-Raqqām”. Dynamis 4: 23-32.

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, p. 432.

Puig, Roser. 1983. “Dos Notas Sobre Ciencia hispano‐árabe a Finales Del Siglo XIII En La Iḥāṭa De Ibn al‐Jaṭīb”. Al‐Qantara 4: 433-40.

Ginés, Juan. 1980. “La Supervivencia De La astronomía De Ibn Al-Bannāʾ”. Al-Qantara 1 (1): 447-52.

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.

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