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Mizzī, Muḥammad ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-

Data of life
* 689/1291
† 749/1349
Profession(s)
  • Mizzī was a muwaqqit (timekeeper), an adept instrument-maker, and the author of several treatises on astronomical instruments.
Manuscripts

Name

original language
  • المزّي، محمد بن احمد بن عبد الرحيم
Alternative names
  • Mizzī, Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
  • Zayn al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Mizzī al-Ḥanafī
  • زين الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن عبد الرحيم المزّي الحنفي

Biographic info

Date of birth
  • 689/1291
Date of death
  • 749/1349
Sex
Confession of faith
Profession(s)
  • Mizzī was a muwaqqit (timekeeper), an adept instrument-maker, and the author of several treatises on astronomical instruments.
Area of activity
  • Er lebte in Kairo und Damaskus.
Area of activity
Literature
  • andere Werke des Autors:

    Astronomical Instruments
    al-Ashkāl al-shāhiyyah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-muqanṭarāt , الأشكال الشاهيّة في العمل بالمقنطرات
    al-Rawḍāt al-muzhirāt fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-muqanṭarāt , الروضات المزهرات في العمل بربع المقنطرات
    al-Risālah al-aṣṭurlābīyyah , الرسالة الأسطرلابيّة
    Kashf al-rayb fī al-ʿamal bi-al-jayb , كشف الريب في العمل بالجيب
    Mukhtaṣar fī al-ʿamal bi-rubʿ al-dāʾirah , مختصر في العمل بربع الدائرة
    Naẓm al-luʾluʾ al-muhadhdhab fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-mujayyab , نظم اللؤلؤ المهذّب في العمل بالربع المجيّب
    Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-rubʿ al-musattar , رسالة في العمل بالربع المستّر
    Risālah fī ʿamal bi-al-mujannaḥah , رسالة في عمل بالمُجنّحة
    [Treatise on Almucantar Quadrant]
    Astronomy: General
    Risālah fī al-dāʾirah al-hindiyyah , رسالة في الدائرة الهنديّة
    Astronomy: Practical
    Jadāwil mīqātiyyah , جداول ميقاتيّة

    Literatur:

    Charette, François. 2007. “Mizzī: Zayn Al‐Dīn [Shams Al‐Din] Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad Ibn ʿAbd Al‐Raḥīm Al‐Mizzī Al‐Ḥanafī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 792-93. New York: Springer-Verlag.

    İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin, and Boris Rozenfeld. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers And Other Scholars Of Islamic Civilisation And Their Works (7Th-19Th C.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture. Pp. 233 (no. 665); pp. 246-47 (no. 715).
    Suter, Heinrich. Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber und ihre Werke. Leipzig 1900, Nr. 406.
bib. Reference
  • GAL II/126 S II/156; Ḥāǧǧī Ḫalīfa III/388-389, Nr. 6086, V/207, Nr. 10703; Kaḥḥāla VIII/275-276; Ziriklī V/327.

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