Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb al-Fazārī

PERSON

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb al-Fazārī

Name (arabic)	أبو عبد ألله محمّد بن إبراهيم بن حبيب الفزاري
Name (translit)	Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb al-Fazārī
Alias	Fazārī Abū Isḥaq al-Fazārī Muḥammad al-Fazārī Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb ibn Sulaymān ibn Jundab al-Fazārī Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb al-Fazārī
Flourished	132H/750J
Born in	Iraq
Lived in	Baghdad Iraq
Died in	Baghdad
Notes	References to 'Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb al‐Fazārī' and 'Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb al‐Fazārī' refer to the same individual, and are not father and son.
Number in MAMS	6 and 15
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Fazari_BEA.htm
ismi_id	81093

Authored Works

10 works:

Astrology

al-Urjūzah fī al-ḥudūd , الأرجوزة في الحدود

Astronomical Instruments

Kitāb al-miqyās lil-zawāl , كتاب المقياس للزوال

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb al-musaṭṭaḥ , كتاب العمل بالأسطرلاب المسطّح

Kitāb al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlābāt dhawāt al-ḥalaq , كتاب العمل بالأسطرلابات ذوات الحلق

Kitāb fī tasṭīḥ al-kurah , كتاب في تسطيح الكرة

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Zīj ʿalá sinī al-ʿArab , الزيج على سني العرب

Qaṣīdah taqūm maqām al-zījāt , قصيدة تقوم مقام الزيجات

Zīj al-Sindhind al-kabīr , زيج السندهند الكبير

Astronomy: Practical

Qaṣīdah fī ʿilm al-nujūm , قصيدة في علم النجوم

Chronology

[Poem on the Syrian Months]

References

Plofker, Kim. 2007. “Fazārī: Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm Al-Fazārī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 1:362-63. 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. 14 (no. 6); pp. 16-17 (no. 15).

Rozenfeld, Boris. 1997. “Al-Fazārī”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Westen Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, 331. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic.

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

SuppI., p. 391.

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. 31.

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. 31.

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. 29 (no. 33), p. 33.

Al-Hāshimī, ʿAlī, and David Pingree. 1981. The Book of the Reasons Behind Astronomical Tables [Kitāb Fī ʿilal al‐zījāt]. Trans. Edward Kennedy and Fuad Haddad. Facsimile reproduction of the unique Arabic text contained in the Bodleian MS Arch. Seld. A.11. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints.

Facsimile reproduction of the unique Arabic text contained in the Bodleian MS Arch. Seld. A.11. The early zījes inspired by Indian sources are intermittently discussed herein.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1979. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 7, Astrologie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 100-1.

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

Pp. 122-24.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1975. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 2, Poesie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 438.

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

Pp. 216-17.

Pingree, David. 1971. “Al-Fazārī”. In Dictionary Of Scientific Biography, ed. Charles Gillispie, 4:555-56. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

Pingree, David. 1970. “The Fragments of the Works of Al-Fazārī”. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 29: 103-23.

The extant information about Fazārī's writings are collected herein; few additional details have come to light since.

Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1967. The Determination of the Coordinates of Positions for the Correction of Distances Between Cities; A Translation from the Arabic of Kitāb taḥdīd nihāyāt Al-amākin Li-taṣḥīḥ masāfāt Al-masākin. Trans. Jamil Ali. Beirut: The American University of Beirut.

Pp. 121, 177.

Krachkovsky, Ignaty. 1957. “Arabskaya Geograficheskaya Literatura”. In Izbrannye Sochineniya. Vol. 4. Moscow-Leningrad.

Pp. 66-68.

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

Pp. 57, 270-71.

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

P. 157-82, especially p. 158.

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. 3-5, 280.

Suter, Heinrich. 1892. “Das Mathematiker-Verzeichniss Im Fihrist Des Ibn Abi Ja’qub an-Nadim”. Abhandlungen für Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 6.

Pp. 27, 61.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.

Pp. 79, 273.

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, p. 530.

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

Vol. 2, pp. 197-201.