PERSON

Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftazānī

Name (arabic)

سعد الدين مسعود بن عمر التفتزاني

Name (translit)

Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftazānī

Alias

Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī
سعد الدين التفتزاني
Taftāzānī

Died

791H/1388J

Lived in

Student of

Notes

Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd Taftāzānī was a student of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī (d. 756/1355) and Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 766/1364).

Number in MAMS

772

ismi_id

8727

Authored Works

2 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Sharḥ al-risālah al-Shamsīyah , شرح الرسالة الشمسية

Categorization of the Sciences

al-Mukhtaṣar sharḥ talkhīṣ al-miftāḥ , المختصر شرح تلخيص المفتاح

References

Fazlıoğlu, İhsan. 2008. “The Samarqand Mathematical-Astronomical School: A Basis For Ottoman Philosophy And Science”. Journal For The History Of Arabic Science 14.

Esp. pp. 23-5 (VIII.1).

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. 260 (no. 772).