PERSON

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá al-Naqqāsh ibn al-Zarqālah al-Qurṭubī

Name (arabic)

أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن يحيی النقّاش بن الزرقالة القرطبي

Name (translit)

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá al-Naqqāsh ibn al-Zarqālah al-Qurṭubī

Alias

Arzachel
Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī
Ibn al-Zarqālī
al-Zarqālī
Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá al-Naqqāsh al-Zarqālī al-Tujībī al-Ṭulayṭalī
Ibn al-Zarqālah
Azarquiel

Born

410H/1020J

Flourished

Died

493H/1100J

Born in

Lived in

Died in

Number in MAMS

402

Biography URL

ismi_id

65898

Authored Works

8 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Al-Shakkāziyyah , الشکّازيّة
Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-ṣafīḥah al-zījiyyah , کتاب العمل بالصفيحة الزيجيّة

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Al-Qānūn li-ʿUmāniyūs , القانون لِعُمانيوس
al-Zīj al-Ṭulayṭalī , الزيج الطليطلي

Astronomy: General

al-Madkhal ilá ʿilm al-nujūm (Zarqālī) , المدخل إلی علم النجوم
Maqālah fī ibṭāl al-ṭarīq allatī salakahā Biṭlīmyūs fī istikhrāj al-buʿd al-abʿad li-ʿUṭārid , مقالة في إبطال الطريق التي سلکها بطليميوس في إستخراج البُعد الأبعد لعطارد

OTHER

References

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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. 164-65 (no. 402).

Samsó, Julio. 2002. “Al-Zarkālī”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2ndnd ed., 11:461-62. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Aguilar, Roser. 2000. “The Theory of the Moon in the Al‐Zīj al‐Kāmil fī‐l‐Taʿālīm of Ibn al‐Hāʾim (ca. 1205)”. Suhayl 1: 71-99.
Calvo, Emilia. 1997. “Ibn Al-Zarqāllu”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine In Non-Western Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, 415-16. Dordrecht & Boston: Kluwer Academic.
King, David. 1997. “Shakkāziyya”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2ndnd ed., 9:251-53. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 1, p. 623; suppl. 1, p. 862.

Puig, Roser. 1996. “On the Eastern Sources of Ibn Al-Zarqalluh’s Orthographic Projection”. In From Baghdad to Barcelona: Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences in Honour of Juan Vernet, eds. Josep Casulleras and Samsó Julio, 2:737-53. Barcelona: Instituto Millás Vallicrosa de Historia de la Ciencia Arabe.
Sesiano, Jacques. 1996. Un Traité médiéval Sur Les carrés Magiques : De l’arrangement Harmonieux Des Nombres. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.
Samsó, Julio. 1994. “Sobre El Modelo De Azarquiel Para Determinar La Oblicuidad De La eclíptica”. In Islamic Astronomy and Medieval Spain, VIII. Aldershot: Variorum.
Samsó, Julio. 1994. “Trepidation in Al-Andalus in the 11th Century”. In Islamic Astronomy and Medieval Spain, VIII, 1-31. Aldershot: Variorum.
Samsó, Julio, Julio Samsó, and Eduardo Millás. 1994. “Ibn Al-Bannāʾ, Ibn Ishāq and Ibn Al-Zarqālluh’s Solar Theory”. In Islamic Astronomy and Medieval Spain, X. Aldershot: Variorum.
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Samsó, Julio. 1992. Las Ciencias De Los Antiguos En Al-Andalus. Madrid: Editorial MAPFRE.
Comes, Mercè. 1991. Ecuatorios andalusíes: Ibn Al-Samḥ, Al-Zarqālluh Y Abū-L-Ṣalt. Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona—Instituto de cooperación con el mundo árabe—Agencia Española de Cooperacíon International.
Puig, Roser. 1989. “A Geometric Device Used by Al-Zarqalluh for the Computation of Lunar Parallax”. In Actes Du Congres International d’Histoire Des Sciences XVIII, 2:14.
King, David, George Saliba, and Gerald Toomer. 1987. “The Solar Theory of Az-Zarqāl: An Epilogue”. In From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, 513-19. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences.
Samsó, Julio. 1987. “Al-Zarqāl, Alfonso X and Peter of Aragon on the Solar Equation”. In From Deferent to Equant : A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E.S. Kennedy, eds. David King and George Saliba, 467-76. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
Aguilar, Roser. 1987. Los Tratados De construcción Y Uso De La Azafea De Azarquiel. Madrid: Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura.
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Pp. 104-12.

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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. 50.

Aguilar, Roser. 1985. “Concerning the Ṣafīḥa Shakkāziyya”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 2: 123-39.
Bū-ʿAlwān Ḥayāt. 1985. Ṣāʿid Ibn-Aḥmad Al-Andalusī: Kitāb ṭabaqāt Al-ʾumam. Beirut: Dār al-Ṭalīʻaẗ.

French translation: "Livre des catégories des nations." edited by Louis Cheikho and translated by Régis Blachère. Paris: Larose, 1935.

Al-Marrākushī, Abū. 1984. Jāmiʿ al‐mabādīʾ wa‐al‐ġāyāt Fī ʿilm al‐mīqāt. Ms. Ahmet III 3343, copied in 747 A.H. - facsimile. 2 vol. Frankfurt am Main: Maʿhad Taʾrīḫ al-ʿUlūm al-ʿArabiyyaẗ wa-al-Islāmiyyaẗ fī ʾiṭār Jāmiʿaẗ Frānkfūrt [Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University].

Facsimile edition of: Ms. Ahmet III 3343 (copied in 747 A.H.), Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Kütüphanesi, Istanbul. Frankfurt am Main. Partially translated in Jean-Jacques Sédillot, Traité des instruments astronomiques des arabes, Paris, 1834-1835. (Reprinted in: Frankfurt, 1984); Louis-Amélie Sédillot, “Mémoire sur les instruments astronomiques des arabes,” Mémoires de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles‐lettres de l'Institut de France 1 (1894): 1-229. (Reprinted in: Frankfurt, 1989.).

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