PERSON

Ibn al-Ḥāʾik: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Dāwūd ibn Sulayman al-Ḥamdānī

Name (arabic)

ابن الحائك أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب بن يوسف بن داوود بن سليمان الحمداني

Name (translit)

Ibn al-Ḥāʾik: Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn Yūsuf ibn Dāwūd ibn Sulayman al-Ḥamdānī

Alias

Ibn al-Ḥaʾik
al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Ḥamdānī
al-Ḥamdānī

Flourished

Died

334H/946J

Born in

Lived in

Number in MAMS

173

ismi_id

61812

Authored Works

5 works:

Astrology

Kitāb al-ṭāliʿ wa-al-maṭāriḥ , كتاب الطالع والمطارح
Sarāʾir al-ḥikmah fī ʿilm al-nujūm , سرائر الحكمة في علم النجوم

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Geography: Practical

Ṣifah Jazīrat al-ʿArab , صفة جزيرة العرب

OTHER

Kitāb al-iklīl , كتاب الإکليل

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