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PERSON

Qusṭā ibn Lūqā al-Baʿalbakī

Name (arabic)

قسطا بن لوقا البعلبكي
Name (translit)

Qusṭā ibn Lūqā al-Baʿalbakī
Alias

Qusṭā ibn Lūqā
قسطا بن لوقا
Costa ben Luca
Flourished

Died

286H/900J
Born in

Baalbek
Lived in

Baghdad
Baalbek
Number in MAMS

118
Biography URL

http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Qusta_ibn_Luqa_al-Balabakki_BEA.htm
ismi_id

95976

References

Gabrieli, Giuseppe. 1912. “Nota Bibliographica Su Qusṭā Ibn Lūqā”. Atti Della R. Accademia Dei Lincei: Rendiconti, Classe Di Scienze Morali, Storiche E Filologiche 21 (5-6): 341-82.

Contains a list of 69 of Qusṭā's compositions and 17 translations, including six astronomical titles [nos. 1–6 in the BEA Index page, numbered respectively as nos. 40, 37, 54, 37, 67, 40], with references to historical and modern sources and manuscript copies and titles [pp. 348–350; p. 348: no. 40: Q. N. is problematic].

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

Vol. 1, pp. 262-63. Contains a list of over 20 of Qusṭā's works including two astronomical titles [nos. 1 and 4 in the BEA Index page].

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

Pp. 163. Reprinted in: "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Astronomie im Islam", edited by Fuat Sezgin. 2 vols. Frankfurt, 1986.

Browne, Edward. 1902. A Literary History of Persia. 4 vol. Cambridge: University Press.

Vol. 1, p. 278. Reprinted in: London: T. F. Unwin, 1951 and Cambridge, 1956. Contains an 11th‐century Persian poem referring to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā.

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. 40-42. Reprinted in: "Beiträge zur Geschichte der Astronomie im Islam", edited by Fuat Sezgin. 2 vols. Frankfurt, 1986.

Suter, Heinrich. 1892. “Das Mathematiker-Verzeichniss Im Fihrist Des Ibn Abi Ja’qub an-Nadim”. Zeitschrift für Mathematik Und Physik 37 Supplement.

P. 43.

Uṣaybiʻah, Ibn. 1884. ʿUyūn Al-anbāʾ Fī ṭabaqāt Al-aṭibbāʾof Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah. Ed. August Müller. 2 vol. Cairo‐Königsberg: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Wahbīyah.

Vol. 1, pp. 144-245. Contains a list of over 60 of Qusṭā's works including three astronomical titles [nos. 1, 3, and 4 in the BEA Index].

Uṣaybiʻah, Ibn. 1884. ʿUyūn Al-anbāʾ Fī ṭabaqāt Al-aṭibbāʾof Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah. Ed. August Müller. 2 vol. Cairo‐Königsberg: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Wahbīyah.

Vol. 1, p. 244.

Leclerc, Lucien. 1876. Histoire De La médecine Arabe: Exposé Complet Des Traductions Du Grec; Les Sciences En Orient, Leur Transmission à l’Occident Par Les Traductions Latines. 2 vol. Paris: E. Leroux.

Pp. 157-159. Reprinted in: New York, [1961?].

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

P. 295. Reprinted in: Cairo, 1966.

Barhebraeus,. 1783. Des Gregorius Abulfaradsch Kurze Geschichte Der Dynastien; Oder, Auszug Der Allgemeinen Welt-Geschichte Besonders Der Geschichte Der Chalifen Und Mogolen. Trans. Georg Bauer. 2 vol. Leipzig: A.G. Böhme.

P. 179.

Barhebraeus,. 1663. Historia Compendiosa Dynastiarvm. Trans. Edward Pococke. Oxford: Excudebat H. Hall.

P. 274.

Pertsch, Wilhelm. Verzeichniss Der Persischen Handschriften. Handschriften-Verzeichnisse Der Königlichen Bibliothek Zu Berlin. Vol. 4. Hildesheim; New York: Georg Olms.

P. 25. Reprinted in: New York, 1960; London, 1965.

Wiedemann, Eilhard. “Kustā”. In Encyclopaedia Iranica, 3:1031-34. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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. 602.