PERSON

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Samarqandī

Name (arabic)

محمد بن أحمد بن يوسف السمرقندي

Name (translit)

Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Samarqandī

Alias

Muḥammad al-Samarqandī

Flourished

250H/865J

Lived in

Notes

Ibn Yūnis in his zīj mentions al-Samarqandi's astronomical observations in Samarkand in 865-866.

Number in MAMS

87

ismi_id

98851

Authored Works

1 works:

Astronomical Tables/zījes

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. 44 (no. 87).

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. 78 (no. 52).

Suter, Heinrich. 1981. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke. Amsterdam: APA; Oriental Press.
Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 161-62.