PERSON

Abū ʿĀṣim ʿIṣām

Name (arabic)

أبو عاصم عصام

Name (translit)

Abū ʿĀṣim ʿIṣām

Flourished

Notes

(From MAMS2): Freed slave of Khālid ibn al-Barmakī, advisor to the Caliph al-Manṣūr. His name is mentioned by Bīrūnī in his Exhaustive Treatise on Shadows.

Number in MAMS

12

ismi_id

82424

Authored Works

1 works:

Astronomical Tables/zījes

References

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. 16 (no. 12).

Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1998. “Kitāb Fī Ifrād Al-Maqāl Fī Amr Al- Aẓlāl”. In Rasāʼiluʼl-Bīrūnī. Islamic Mathematics And Astronomy. Vol. 32.

P. 93.

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. 33 (no. 4.1).

Kennedy, Edward. 1976. The Exhaustive Treatise On Shadows By Abū Al‐Rayḥān Muhammad B. Ahmad Al‐Bīrūnī. 2 vol.. Aleppo: Institute for the History of Arabic Science.

Vol. 1, p. 37; vol. 2, pp. 72-73.