ISMI Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

PERSON

ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʾī

Name (arabic)

عزّ الدين عبد العزيز بن محمّد الوفائي
Name (translit)

ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʾī
Alias

أبو الفضائل عزّ الدين عبد العزيز بن محمّد الوفائي
Abū al-Faḍāʾil Wafāʾī
ʿIzz al-Dīn al-Wafāʾī
Îzzüddin ibn Muhammed al-Vefaî'
Abū al-Faḍāʾil ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad al-Wafāʾī
Flourished

Died

874H/1469J
Lived in

Cairo
Number in MAMS

842
ismi_id

5277

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomical Instruments

al-Durar al-muntahirāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt , الدرر المنتهرات في العمل ببع المقنطرات
Quṭb [Al-Nujūm] al-zāhirāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt , قطب الزاهرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات

References

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. 283-85 (no. 842). States that he was "muʾadhdhin/muwaqqit of Muʾayyad Mosque in Cairo."

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

Vol. 2, pp. 159-60; suppl. 2, p. 160.

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. 70-72 (C61).

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. 501-3.

Tekeli, Sevim. 1960. “Îzzüddin B. Muhammed Al-Vefaî’nin "Ekvatör Halkası" Adlı Makalesi Ve Torquetum (‘Equatorial Armilla’ of Iz Al-Din B. Muhammad Al-Wafai and Torquetum)”. Ankara Üniversitesi Dil Ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi 18 (3-4): 227-59.
Suter, Heinrich. 1902. “Nachträge Und Berichtigungen”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen 14: 157-85.

Pp. 178-79.

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. 177-78.

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. 5, p. 227; vol. 6, pp. 309, 337.