PERSON

Abū al-Rabīʿ Ḥāmid ibn ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī

Name (arabic)

أبو الربيع حامد بن علي الواسطي

Name (translit)

Abū al-Rabīʿ Ḥāmid ibn ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī

Alias

Ḥāmid ibn ʿAlī al-Wāsiṭī

Flourished

338H/950J

Number in MAMS

116

ismi_id

95782

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb al-kurī , رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب الكري

Astronomical Tables/zījes

References

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Pp. 58-59 (no. 116).

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

Suppl. 1, p. 398.

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. 107-8 (no. 76).

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

P. 207.

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.

P. 40.

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

P. 42.

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

P. 285.

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Vol. 1, p. 601.