al-Jaghmīnī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Jaghmīnī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ragep, Sally P.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060183
Doc. NO	:	ALei580
Main Entry	:	Ragep, Sally P.
Title & Author	:	al-Jaghmīnī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Ragep, Sally P.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(2,267 words)
Abstract	:	Sharaf al-Dīn Abū ʿAlī Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-Jaghmīnī (al-Chaghmīnī) al-Khwārazmī (d. c.618/1221–2) composed multiple scientific works (in astronomy, arithmetic, astrology, and medicine) in Arabic in the late sixth/twelfth and early seventh/thirteenth centuries under the auspices of the Khwārazmshāhs in Central Asia. Two of his compositions in particular became popular textbooks: an introduction to Ptolemaic theoretical astronomy, al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī ʿilm al-hayʾa al-basīṭa; and a medical treatise, al-Qānūnča (“The ‘little Qānūn ’”), an abridgement of Ibn Sīnā’s (
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei580.pdf