David Pingree
Articles by David Pingree
- ḠIĀṮ-AL-DIN JAMŠID MASʿUD KĀŠĀNI
GIĀṮ-AL-DIN JAMŠID MASʿUD KĀŠĀNI (or Kāši), astronomer and mathematician (b. in Kāšān in ca. 770- 80/1368-78; d. in Samarqand 19…
- BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN vi. History and Chronology
BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN vi. History and Chronology Bīrūnī’s main essay on political history, Ketāb al-mosāmara fī aḵbār Ḵᵛārazm (Book of…
- BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN ii. Bibliography
BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN ii. Bibliography Bīrūnī catalogued both his own works and those of Rāzī. In 427/1035-36 or a little…
- BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN iv. Geography
BĪRŪNĪ, ABŪ RAYḤĀN iv. Geography Bīrūnī’s conceptions of the spherical shape of the earth and of the distribution of geographical…
- FAŻL NAYRĪZĪ
FAŻL NAYRĪZĪ, ABU’L ʿABBĀS b. Ḥātem, mathematician and astronomer (fl. 900 C.E.). His family originated from Nayrīz/Nīrīz, a small town…
- FARḠĀNĪ, AḤMAD
FARḠĀNĪ, AḤMAD, b. Moḥammad b. Kaṯīr, Muslim astronomer. Farḡānī flourished at Sāmarrā during the period that it served as the…
- FAHHĀD, FARĪD-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ
FAHHĀD, FARĪD-AL-DĪN ABU’L-ḤASAN ʿALĪ, b. ʿAbd-al-Karīm Šarvānī (fl. 6th/12th cent.; he is sometimes called by his father’s name ʿAbd-al-Karīm), the…
- EṢFAHĀNĪ, ʿABD-AL-ḤASAN
EṢFAHĀNĪ,ʿABD-AL-ḤASAN (?) b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan, author of the Ketāb al-bolhān on astrology, magic, divination, and demonology, which…
- EḴTĪĀRĀT
EḴTĪĀRĀT (choices, elections), a term used in Islamic divination and astrology in at least four principle meanings: 1. It refers…
- HOROSCOPE
HOROSCOPE (Pahl. zāyc, modem Pers. zāyca, Ar. zāʾeja/zāʾrja), the horoscopic diagram or theme which depicts the positions of the planets in the…
- BORJ
BORJ (plur. Pers. borjhā, borūj; Ar. borūj, abrāj, abreja), Arabic and Persian word derived from an Aramaic adaptation of Latin…
- ʿISĀ B. YAḤYĀ MASIḤI JORJĀNI
ʿISĀ B. YAḤYĀ MASIḤI JORJĀNI, Abu Sahl, physician, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer (d. after 925). Little is securely known about…
- ḤASAN B. ʿALI AL-QOMMI
ḤASANB. ʿALI AL-QOMMI, ABU NAṢR, astrologer of the late 4th/10th century. Very little is known about this person. He was…
- HĀRUN AL-MONAJJEM
HĀRUN B. ʿALI B. HĀRUN B. YAḤYĀ B. ABI MANṢUR AL-MONAJJEM, astronomer, astrologer, and Hadith expert, born ca. 915 C.E.,…
- ḤĀMED BAL-ḴEŻR AL-ḴOJANDI
ḤĀMED BAL-ḴEŻR AL-ḴOJANDI, ABU MAḤMUD, mathematician and astronomer of the late 4th/10th century who, according to Heinrich Suter (p. 74,…
- GUŠYĀR GILĀNI, ABU’L-ḤASAN B. LABBĀN
GUŠYĀR (Arabicized Kušyār) GILĀNI, ABU’L-ḤASAN B. LABBĀN b. BĀŠAHRI, an astronomer and mathematician from Gilān, whence his nesba Jili/Gilāni (fl….
- SIRĀFI, ABU SAʿID ḤASAN
SIRĀFI, ABU SAʿID ḤASAN b. ʿAbd-Allāh b. Marzobān (b. Sirāf on the coast of Fārs in 280/893-94; d. Baghdad 2…
- NAWBAḴTI, ḤASAN
NAWBAḴTI, ḤASAN b. Musā Abu Moḥammad, 4th/10th century theologian and philosopher in Baghdad, d. between 300/912-3 and 310/922-3. The son…
- NISĀBURI, ḤASAN
NISĀBURI,ḤASAN b. Moḥammad al-Aʿraj, Neẓām-al-Din Qommi, Astronomer; d. after 1311. Nisāburi composed commentaries on several works on astronomy by Naṣir-al-Din…