Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ṣadafī

PERSON

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ṣadafī

Name (arabic)	أبو الحسن علي بن أبي سعيد عبد الرحمن بن أحمد بن يونس الصدفي
Name (translit)	Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūnus al-Ṣadafī
Alias	ابي الحسن علي بن عبد الرحمن بن احمد بن يونس بن عبد الاعلي الصدفي Ibn Yūnus ابن يونس الحاسب ابن يونس أبي الحسن علي بن عبد الرحمن بن أحمد بن يونس بن عبد الأعلي الصدفي
Born	328H/940J
Flourished
Died	395H/1005J
Lived in	Cairo
Died in	Egypt
Number in MAMS	283
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Yunus_BEA.htm
ismi_id	52057

Authored Works

14 works:

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Zīj al-kabīr al-Ḥākimī , الزيج الكبير الحاكمي

Jadāwil faḍl al-dāʾir min qibal al-irtifāʿ , جداول فضل الدائر من قبل الإرتفاع

Jadwalān li-maqāmay al-jawazahir wa-al-kayd , جدولان لمقامي الجوزهر والكيد

Kitāb al-jayb li-daqīqah fa-daqīqah wa-thāniyah fa-thāniyah , كتاب الجيب لدقيقة فدقيقة وثانية فثانية

Kitāb ghāyat al-intifāʿ fī maʿrifat al-dāʾir wa-faḍlihi wa-al-samt min qibal al-irtifāʿ , كتاب غاية الإنتفاع في معرفة الدائر وفضله والسمت من قبل الإرتفاع

Kitāb ḥabṭaq ḥall al-shams wa-al-qamar , كتاب حبطق حل الشمس والقمر

Tashīl al-ʿibārah fī taqwīm al-kawākib al-sayyārah , تسهيل العبارة في تقويم الكواكب السيّارة

Astronomy: General

Kitāb fī al-samt , كتاب في السمت

Kitāb maḥlūl al-shams , كتاب محلول الشمس

Risālah fī al-kusūfāt (Ibn Yūnus) , رسالة في الكسوفات

Risālah fī ṭarīq istikhrāj khaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār , رسالة في طريق إستخراج خطّ نصف النهار

Astronomy: Practical

al-Manẓūmah fī maʿrifah awqāt al-ṣalawāt , المنظومة في معرفة أوقات الصلوات

TECHNOLOGY

Risālah fī ṭarīq istikhrāj khaṭṭay al-qusṭās , رسالة في طريق إستخراج خطّي القسطاس

ʿAmal thurayyā yūqadu fīhā ithnā ʿashar qandīlan fa-kullamā māḍat sāʿah min al-layl ṭufīʾa minhā qandīl , عمل ثريا يوقد فيها اثنا عشر قنديلاً فكلما مضت ساعة من الليل طفيء منها قنديل

References

Anonymous,. 9999. “An Abridgment of Ibn Yūnus’s al‐Zīj al‐kabīr al‐Ḥākimī”. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale.

The sole source for some additional chapters of Ibn Yūnus's Zīj.

Anonymous,. 9999. “Cairo Corpus of Tables for Timekeeping”. Dublin, Chester Beatty and Cairo, Dar al‐Kutub, respectively.

Complete copies of this corpus.

Yūnus, Ibn. 9999. “Al‐Zīj al‐kabīr al‐Ḥākimī”. Leiden and Oxford, respectively.

Contains major fragments.

King, David. 2007. “Ibn Yūnus: Abū al‐Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn ʿAbd al‐Raḥmān Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Yūnus al‐Ṣadafī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 1:573-74. New York: Springer-Verlag.

King, David. 2004. In Synchrony With the Heavens: Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization. 2 vol. Leiden; Boston: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 1: "The Call of the Muezzin (Studies I–IX)." Studies I-2.1.1, 5.1.1, and II-4.5.

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.

Pp. 106-7 (no. 283).

King, David. 2000. “Too Many Cooks . A New Account of the Earliest Muslim Geodetic Measurements”. Suhayl 1: 207-42.

Pp. 210-14.

King, David, and Marianne Barrucand. 1999. “Aspects of Fatimid Astronomy: From Hard‐Core Mathematical Astronomy to Architectural Orientations in Cairo”. In L’Égypte Fatimide : Son Art Et Son Histoire, 497–517. Paris: Presses de l’Université de Paris‐Sorbonne.

Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 1, pp. 255-56; suppl. 1, pp. 400-1.

Al‐Ṣafadī, Ṣalāḥ. 1991. Al-Wāfī Bi-ʾl-wafayāt. Stuttgart: Orient‐Institut der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft.

Vol. 1, p. 365.

Said, Said, and Francis Stevenson. 1991. “Precision of Medieval Islamic Eclipse Measurements”. Journal for the History of Astronomy 22: 195-207.

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

Pp. 43-44 (B59).

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, pp. 196-98; vol. 3, p. 363 (no. 178).

Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 228-31.

Youschkevitch, Adolf, M. Cazenave, and K. Jaouiche. 1976. Les mathématiques Arabes (VIIIe-XVe siècles). Paris: J. Vrin.

Pp. 136, 148.

Gillispie, Charles, and David King. 1976. “Ibn Yūnus”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 14:574-80. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 342-43.

King, David. 1973. “Ibn Yūnus’ Very Useful Tables for Reckoning Time by the Sun”. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 10: 342-94.

Reprinted in: "Islamic Mathematical Astronomy," IX. London: Variorium Reprints, 1986; 2nd rev. ed., Aldershot: Variorum, 1993.

King, David. 1972. “The Astronomical Works of Ibn Yūnus”. New Haven, CT: Yale University.

Deals with spherical astronomy only.

Sayılı, Aydın. 1960. The Observatory in Islam and Its Place in the General History of the Observatory. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi (Turkish Historical Society).

Pp. 130-56, 167-75.

Krachkovsky, Ignaty. 1957. “Arabskaya Geograficheskaya Literatura”. In Izbrannye Sochineniya. Vol. 4. Moscow-Leningrad.

Pp. 106-7.

Suter, Heinrich. 1902. “Nachträge Und Berichtigungen”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen 14: 157-85.

Pp. 167-68.

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.

Pp. 77-78.

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. 105, 148; vol. 3, pp. 366, 399; vol. 4, pp. 241, 244; vol. 6, p. 422.

Ibn Yūnus ʻAlī. 1804. Le Livre De La Grande Table hakémite. Extraits Du Ms. De Leyde, Par Ebn Iounis.. Trans. J.J. de Perceval. Paris: L’Imprimerie de la Républic.

Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 1, pp. 716-17.

Khallikān, Ibn, and William Slane. Biographical Dictionary. Library/m/aleph%7C002253723. 4 vol. Paris: Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 1, pp. 474-75.