PERSON
Malik al-Ashraf Mumahhid al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Rasūl
| Name (arabic) |
ملك الأشرف ممهّد الدين عمر بن يوسف بن عمر بن علي بن رسول
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| Name (translit) |
Malik al-Ashraf Mumahhid al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī ibn Rasūl
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| Alias |
Ashraf
al-Ashraf ʿUmar
ʿUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿUmar
Rasulid Sultan al-Ashraf
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| Died |
696H/1296J
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| Lived in |
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| Student of |
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| Notes |
al‐Ashraf ʿUmar, the third of the Rasulid sultans in Yemen. |
| Number in MAMS |
685
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| Biography URL |
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| ismi_id |
42360
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Authored Works
3 works:Astronomical Instruments
Muʿīn al-ṭālib ʿalá ʿamal al-asṭurlāb (Ashraf) , معين الطالب على عمل الأسطرلاب
Astronomy: General
Kitāb al-tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-nujūm (Ashraf) , كتاب التبصرة في علم النجوم
TECHNOLOGY
References
Schmidl, Petra. 2007. “Ashraf: Al‐Malik Al‐Ashraf (Mumahhid Al‐Dīn) ʿUmar Ibn Yūsuf Ibn ʿUmar Ibn ʿAlī Ibn Rasūl”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Astronomers, ed. Thomas al., 1:66-7. 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.
P. 238 (no. 685).
Varisco, Daniel. 1994. Medieval Agriculture And Islamic Science: The Almanac Of A Yemeni Sultan. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
On Ashraf's almanac.
King, David. 1986. A Survey Of The Scientific Manuscripts In The Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.
P. 132 (E8).
King, David. 1985. “The Medieval Yemeni Astrolabe In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art In New York City”. Zeitschrift Für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 2: 99-122.
On Ashraf's astrolabe and the treatise on its construction. Repr.: King, Islamic Astronomical Instruments, II. London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.
Supplement in King, Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Arabisch–Islamischen Wissenschaften 4 (1987–1988): 268–269
King, David. 1983. Mathematical Astronomy In Medieval Yemen: A Bibliographical Survey. Malibu: Undena Publications.
On Ashraf in the context of Yemeni astronomy.
Schmidl, Petra. “Two Early Arabic Sources On The Magnetic Compass”. Journal Of Arabic And Islamic Studies 1: 81-132.
On the magnetic compass.