al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī

PERSON

al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī

Name (arabic)	الحسن بن محمد بن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري
Name (translit)	al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj al-Nīsābūrī
Alias	Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj الحسن ابن محمد ابن الحسين نظام الدين الأعرج النيسابوري النیشاپوبی Nīšāpūrī Niẓām al-Dīn al-Aʿraj Niẓām al-Aʿraj
Flourished
Died	730H/1329J
Born in	Nīshābūr
Lived in	Iran Nīshābūr
Notes	Niẓām al‐Dīn al‐Aʿraj al‐Nīsābūrī (fl. late 13th/early 14th centuries), known for his Quran commentary, composed several widely studied works in astronomy, an indication of the importance astronomical treatises held for religious scholars.
Number in MAMS	686/756
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Nisaburi_BEA.htm
ismi_id	42529

Authored Works

10 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

al-Risālah al-Shamsiyyah fī al-ḥisāb , الرسالة الشمسيّة في الحساب

Astronomical Instruments

Rubʿ-i muqanṭar , ربع مقنطر

Sharḥ-i Bīst bāb dar asṭurlāb , شرح بيست باب در اسطرلاب

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Kashf al-ḥaqāʾiq Zīj-i Īlkhānī , كشف الحقائق زيج ايلخاني

Zīj al-ʿAlāʾī , زيج العلائي

Astronomy: Practical

Risālah fī maʿrifah samt al-Qiblah , رسالة في معرفة سمت القبلة

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Sharḥ Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī (Nīsābūrī) , شرح تحرير المجسطي

Tawḍīḥ al-Tadhkirah , توضيح التذكرة

Mathematics: General

Sharḥ al-Shāfiyyah (Nīsābūrī) , شرح الشافيّة

OTHER

Taṣānīf sulṭān al-ḥukamā wa-al-muḥaqqiqīn khwāja Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī, quddisa qabruhu

References

Morrison, Robert. 2007. Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Niẓām Al-Dīn Al-Nīsābūrī. London; New York: Routledge.

Morrison, Robert. 2007. “Nīsābūrī: Al‐Ḥasan Ibn Muḥammad Ibn al‐Ḥusayn Niẓām al‐Dīn al‐Aʿraj al‐Nīsābūrī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas al., 837. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Morrison, Robert. 2005. “The Role of Portrayals of Nature in Medieval Qurʾān Commentaries”. Arabica 52: 182-203.

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.p. 238-39 (no. 686). MAMS II incorrectly lists a Niẓām al-Dīn al-Bazdawī (p. 257, no. 756) who is actually Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī, based on the listed manuscript (SK, Ayasofya 2646) which is a copy of Nīsābūrī's commentary on Ṭūsī’s Tadhkira.

Morrison, Robert. 2002. “The Portrayal of Nature in a Medieval Qur’an Commentary”. Studia Islamica 94: 115-37.

Morrison, Robert. 1998. “The Intellectual Development of Niẓām Al-Dīn Al-Nīsābūrī (d. 1329 A. D.)”. Columbia University.

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. 155 (G38).