Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī

PERSON

Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī

Name (arabic)	أبو الحسين عبد الرحمن بن عمر الصوفي
Name (translit)	Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿUmar al-Ṣūfī
Alias	Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī ʿAbd al-Raḥmân al-Ṣoûfî al-Ṣūfī ابي الحسين عبد الرحمن ابن عُمر الصوفي الشيرازي
Born	291H/903J
Flourished
Died	376H/986J
Born in	Rayy
Lived in	Isfahan Rayy
Teacher of	Abū Shujāʿ ʿAḍud al-Dawlah Fannā Khusraw
Number in MAMS	212
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Sufi_BEA.htm
ismi_id	58576

Authored Works

9 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-kurah al-falakiyyah , كتاب العمل بالكرة الفلكية

Kitāb fī maʿrifah asṭurlāb , كتاب في معرفة اسطرلاب

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (170 chapters) , رسالة في العمل بالاسطرلاب

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (1760 chapters) , رسالة في العمل بالاسطرلاب

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (400 chapters) , رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب

Astronomy: General

Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah , كتاب صور الكواكب الثابتة

Risālah fī maʿrifah mā maḍá min al-layl min sāʿāt bi-qiyās al-kawākib al-thābitah wa-al-ṭāliʿ , رسالة في معرفة ما مضی من اللیل من ساعات بقیاس الكواكب الثابتة والطالع

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Kitāb al-Madkhal ilā ʿilm al-nujūm wa-aḥkāmihi , كتاب المدخل إلی علم النجوم وأحكامه

Geometry: General

Risālah fī ʿamal al-ashkāl al-mutasāwiyyah al-aḍlāʿ kulluhā bi-fathah wāḥidah , رسالة في عمل أشكال المتساويّة الأضلاع كلّها بفتحة واحدة

References

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Pp. 86-87 (no. 212).

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

Vol. 1, p. 254; suppl. ?, p. 214.

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. 41.

Kunitzsch, Paul. 1986. “The Astronomer Abū ʾl‐Ḥusayn al‐Ṣūfī and His Book on the Constellations”. In Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch–Islamischen Wissenschaften, 3:56-81. Frankfurt: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften.

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, p. 157-59.

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

Pp. 212-15.

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

Pp. 309-10.

Qurbānī, Abū. 1971. Riyāzidanān-I Irānī Az Khwarizmī Tā Ibn Sīnā. Tehran.

Pp. 95-112.

Ṭūqān Qadrī. 1963. Turāth Al-ʿArab Al-ʿilmī Fī Al-riyāḍīyāt Wa-Al-Falak. Cairo: Dār al-Qalam.

Pp. 223-26.

Lippert, Julius, and Jamāl Al-Qifṭī. 1903. “Taʾrīḫ Al-hukamāʾ”. Leipzig: Theodor Weicher.

Pp. 226-27.

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

P. 166.

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. 62-63.

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. 3, p. 336; vol. 4, p. 113.

Barhebraeus,. 1783. Des Gregorius Abulfaradsch Kurze Geschichte Der Dynastien; Oder, Auszug Der Allgemeinen Welt-Geschichte Besonders Der Geschichte Der Chalifen Und Mogolen. Trans. Georg Bauer. 2 vol. Leipzig: A.G. Böhme.

P. 214.

Barhebraeus,. 1663. Historia Compendiosa Dynastiarvm. Trans. Edward Pococke. Oxford: Excudebat H. Hall.

P. 325.

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. 665-66.

de Vaux, Bernard. Les Penseurs De l’Islam. 5 vol. Paris: P. Geuthner.

Vol. 2, pp. 41-42.