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PERSON

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ādamī

Name (arabic)

أبو علي الحسين بن محمد الآدمي
Name (translit)

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ādamī
Alias

Ādamī
Flourished

Lived in

Baghdad
Notes

Ādamī is noted for his work on instruments. Also see Ibn al-Ādamī, who wrote an influential astronomical handbook with tables (zīj) that was based upon Indian sources, since the two names have often been confused in modern sources.
Number in MAMS

85
Biography URL

http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Adami_BEA.htm
ismi_id

98807

Authored Works

1 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Kitāb takhṭīṭ al-sāʿāt wa-inḥirāf al-ḥīṭān wa-al-ẓilālāt wa-abʿād al-sumūt , کتاب تخطيط الساعات وانحراف الحيطان والظلالات وأبعاد السموت

References

Bolt, Marvin, and F. Jamil Ragep. 2007. “Ādamī: Abū ʿAlī Al‐Ḥusayn Ibn Muḥammad Al‐Ādamī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 1:12. New York: Springer-Verlag.
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. 43 (no. 85).

King, David. 1993. “Mizwala [Sundial]”. In Encyclopaedia Of Islam, New Edition, 2nd ed., 7:210-211. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Ragep, F. Jamil. 1993. Nasīr Al‐Dīn Al‐Ṭūsī's Memoir On Astronomy (Al‐Tadhkira Fī ʿIlm Al‐Hayʾa). 2 vol.. New York: Springer‐Verlag.

Vol. 2, pp. 400-8.

King, David, Bernard Goldstein, and J.Lennart Berggren. 1987. “Universal Solutions In Islamic Astronomy”. In From Ancient Omens To Statistical Mechanics: Essays On The Exact Sciences Presented To Asger Aaboe, 39:121-132. Acta Historica Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium, Copenhagen: Copenhagen University Library.
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.
Suter, Heinrich. 1981. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke. Amsterdam: APA; Oriental Press.

P. 27.

al-Nadīm, Ibn. 1970. The Fihrist Of Muḥammad Ibn Isḥāq Ibn Al-Nadīm: A Tenth-Century Survey Of Muslim Culture. Ed. Bayard Dodge. 2 vol.. New York: Columbia University Press.

Vol. 2, p. 663.

Kennedy, Edward. 1956. “A Survey Of Islamic Astronomical Tables”. Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society 46, pt. 2: 121-177.
1912. Ibn Saʿīd Al-Andalusī Abī Al-Qāsim Saʿīd Ibn Aḥmad: Kitāb Ṭabaqāt Al-ʾUmam. Ed. Louis Cheikho. Beirut: Imprimerie catholique.

Pp. 49–50, 57-58. French translation with notes in: "Livre des catégories des nations [Kitāb ṭabaqāt al-ʾumam]." edited by Louis Cheikho and translated by Régis Blachère. Paris: Larose, 1935.

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

P. 182.

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

P. 36.

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

P. 280.