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Ibn al-Adami, the Glossary

Ibn al‐Ādamī (flourished in Baghdad, c. 925), was a 10th-century Islamic astronomer who wrote an influential work of zij based on Indian sources.^[1]

12 relations: Al-Adami, Al-Mansur, Astronomy, Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world, Baghdad, Ibrahim ibn Sinan, Indian astronomy, Said al-Andalusi, Thābit ibn Qurra, Trepidation, Zij, Zij as-Sindhind.
10th-century astronomers
Astronomers from the Abbasid Caliphate

Al-Adami

ʿAbū ʿAlī al‐Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al‐Ādamī (أبو علي الحسين بن محمد الآدمي; flourished in Baghdad) was a maker of scientific instruments who wrote an extant work on vertical sundials, Techniques, Walls, and the Making of Sundials. Ibn al-Adami and al-Adami are 10th-century astronomers, Astronomers from the Abbasid Caliphate and Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world.

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Al-Mansur

Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr (أبو جعفر عبد الله بن محمد المنصور&lrm;; 95 AH – 158 AH/714 CE – 6 October 775 CE) usually known simply as by his laqab al-Manṣūr (المنصور) was the second Abbasid caliph, reigning from 136 AH to 158 AH (754 CE – 775 CE) succeeding his brother al-Saffah.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world

Medieval Islamic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age (9th–13th centuries), and mostly written in the Arabic language.

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Baghdad

Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.

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Ibrahim ibn Sinan

Ibrahim ibn Sinan (Arabic: Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurra,; born 295296 AH/ in Baghdad, died: 334-335 AH/946 in Baghdad, aged 38) was a mathematician and astronomer who belonged to a family of scholars originally from Harran in northern Mesopotamia. Ibn al-Adami and Ibrahim ibn Sinan are 10th-century astronomers, Astronomers from the Abbasid Caliphate and Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world.

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Indian astronomy

Indian astronomy refers to astronomy practiced in the Indian subcontinent.

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Said al-Andalusi

Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī, in full Abū al-Qāsim Ṣāʿid ibn Abū al-Walīd Aḥmad ibn Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣāʿid ibn ʿUthmān al-Taghlibi al-Qūrtūbi (صاعِدُ بنُ أحمدَ بن عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن صاعدٍ التَّغْلِبيُّ) (1029July 6, 1070 AD; 4206 Shawwal, 462 AH), was an Arab qadi of Toledo in al-Andalus, who wrote on the history of science, philosophy and thought.

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Thābit ibn Qurra

Thābit ibn Qurra (full name:, أبو الحسن ثابت بن قرة بن زهرون الحراني الصابئ, Thebit/Thebith/Tebit; 826 or 836 – February 19, 901), was a polymath known for his work in mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and translation. Ibn al-Adami and Thābit ibn Qurra are Astronomers from the Abbasid Caliphate and Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world.

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Trepidation

Trepidation (from Lat. trepidus, "trepidatious"), in now-obsolete medieval theories of astronomy, refers to hypothetical oscillation in the precession of the equinoxes.

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Zij

A zij (zīj) is an Islamic astronomical book that tabulates parameters used for astronomical calculations of the positions of the sun, moon, stars, and planets.

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Zij as-Sindhind

Zīj as-Sindhind (Zīj as‐Sindhind al‐kabīr, lit. "Great astronomical tables of the Sindhind"; from Sanskrit siddhānta, "system" or "treatise") is a work of zij (astronomical handbook with tables used to calculate celestial positions) brought in the early 770s AD to the court of Caliph al-Mansur in Baghdad from India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Adami