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PERSON

Abū ʿĀṣim ʿIṣām

Name (arabic)

أبو عاصم عصام
Name (translit)

Abū ʿĀṣim ʿIṣām
Flourished

80H/700J
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

Zīj (Abū ʿĀṣim ʿIṣām) , زيج

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.