PERSON

Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī al-Kāshī

Name (arabic)

شمس الدين ابو الحسن محمّد بن احمد الخفري الكاشي

Name (translit)

Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Khafrī al-Kāshī

Alias

Šams al-Dīn al-Ḫafrī

Flourished

802H/1399J

Died

330H/941J

Lived in

Number in MAMS

936

Biography URL

ismi_id

493846

Authored Works

1 works:

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

al-Takmilah fī sharḥ al-Tadhkirah , التكملة في شرح التذكرة

References

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Supplements, vol. 1, p. 926.

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Al-Khafrī, Shams. 1994. “Al-Takmila Fī sharḥ Al-Tadhkira.”
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P. 148.

Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub waʾl-funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum a Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 2, pp. 269, 479; vol. 6, p. 227.