Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn ʿIṣmah al-Samarqandī

PERSON

Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn ʿIṣmah al-Samarqandī

Name (arabic)	أبو داوود سليمان بن عصمة السمرقندي
Name (translit)	Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn ʿIṣmah al-Samarqandī
Alias	Sulaymān ibn ʿIṣmah
Flourished	08xx CE/ 02xx AH
Lived in	Balkh Samarqand
Notes	(From MAMS2): His observations of obliquity of ecliptic in Balkh in 883-888 are described in by al-Bīrūnī, in Taḥdīd nihāyāt al-amākīn li-taṣḥīḥ masāfāt al-masākin.
Number in MAMS	181
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Sulayman_ibn_Isma_BEA.htm
ismi_id	59241

Authored Works

6 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Maqālaẗ fī ʿamal al-ālaẗ li-maʿrifaẗ ruʾyaẗ al-ahillaẗ , مقالة في عمل الآلة لمعرفة رؤية الأهلة

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Zīj al-nayyirayn , زيج النيّرين

Astronomy: General

Šarḥ al-Majisṭī , شرح المجسطي

Geometry: General

Fī ḏawāt al-ismayn wa-al-munfaṣilāt allaḏī min al-maqālaẗ al-ʿāširaẗ min kitāb Uqlīdis , في ذوات الإسمين والمنفصلات الذي من المقالة العاشرة من كتاب أقليدس

Risālaẗ fī al-nisbaẗ al-muʾallafaẗ , رسالة في النسبة المؤلفة

Risālaẗ fī misāḥaẗ ḏawāt al-nawāḥī , رسالة في مساحة ذوات النواحي

References

Bezza, Giuseppe. 2007. “Sulaymān Ibn ʿIṣma: Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān Ibn ʿIṣma Al‐Samarqandī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 2:1110-11. 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. 78 (no. 181).

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

Suppl 1, p. 855.

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. 38.

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. 144 (no. 117).

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

P. 170.

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

pp. 337-38.

Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1966. Geodeziya. Trans. P.G. Bulgakov. Abu Raikhan Beruni, 973-1048, Izbrannye Proizvedeniya (Selected Works). Vol. 3: Opredelenie Granitz Mest dlya Utochneniya Rasstoyanii Mejdu Naselennimi Punktami (Taḥdīd nihāyāt al-amākīn. ) . Taškent: Akademii Nauk Uzbekskoj SSR.

Pp. 128-29, 235, 268.

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. 88-89.

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.

P. 56.

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. 1, p. 382.