PERSON

Muʾayyad al-Millah wa-al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī al-ʿĀmirī al-Dimashqī

Name (arabic)

مؤيّد الملّة والدين العرضي العامري الدمشقي

Name (translit)

Muʾayyad al-Millah wa-al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī al-ʿĀmirī al-Dimashqī

Alias

Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī
Muʾayyad ibn Barīk [Burayk] al-ʿUrḍī al-ʿĀmirī al-Dimashqī
Muʾayyad ibn Barmak al-ʿUrḍī al-Dimashqī
Urḍī

Born

544H/1150J

Flourished

Died

658H/1260J

Lived in

Teacher of

Number in MAMS

629

Biography URL

ismi_id

48884

Authored Works

4 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Risālah fī kayfiyyat al-arṣād wa-mā yuḥtāju ilá ʿilmihi wa-ʿamalihi min al-ṭuruq al-muʿaddiyah ilá maʿrifah ʿawdāt al-kawākib , رسالة في كفيّة الأرصاد وما يحتاج إلى علمه وعمله من الطرق المعدّية إلى معرفة عودات الكواكب

Astronomy: General

Muqaddimah fī taṣḥīḥ burhān al-shakl al-rābiʿ min tāsiʿat al-Majisṭī , مقدمة في تصحيح برهان الشكل الرابع من تاسعة المجسطي

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Kitāb al-hayʾah (ʿUrḍī) , كتاب الهيئة
Sharḥ Kitāb al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah , شرح كتاب التبصرة في علم الهيئة

Manuscript Witnesses copied by this person

1 witnesses:

References

Schmidl, Petra. 2007. “ʿUrḍī: Muʾayyad (al‐Milla wa‐) al‐Dīn (Muʾayyad Ibn Barīk [Burayk]) al‐ʿUrḍī (al‐ʿĀmirī al‐Dimashqī)”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas al., 2:1161-62. 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. 224 (no. 629).

King, David, George Saliba, and George Saliba. 1987. “The Height of the Atmosphere According to Muʾayyad Al-Dīn Al-ʿUrḍī, Quṭb Al-Dīn Al-Shīrāzī, and Ibn Muʿādh”. In From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, 445-65. New York: New York Academy of Sciences; Blackwell.
Saliba, George. 1985. “Solar Observations at the Maraghah Observatory before 1275: A New Set of Parameters”. Journal for the History of Astronomy 16: 113-22.
Saliba, George. 1985. “The Determination of Solar Eccentricity and Apogee According to Muʾayyad al‐Dīn al‐ʿUrḍī (d. 1266 A.D.)”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch Islamischen Wissenschaften 2: 47-67.
Saliba, George. 1979. “The Original Source of Quṭb Al-Dīn Al-Shīrāzī’s Planetary Model”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 3: 3-18.
Saliba, George. 1979. “The First Non-Ptolemaic Astronomy at the Maraghah School”. Isis 70 (4): 571-76.