Muhyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī

Works

Astronomy

• Tasṭīḥ al‐asṭurlāb: a description of the construction and use of the astrolabe.
• Maqāla fī istikhrāj taʿdīl al‐nahār wa saʿat al‐mashriq wa‐ʾl‐dāʾir min al‐falak bi‐ṭarīq al‐handasa: a description of the geometrical methods used to determine the meridian line, the rising amplitude, and the revolution of the sphere.
• Risālat al‐Khaṭā wa‐ʾl‐īghūr: a chronological work on the Chinese and Uighur calendars, which was later translated from Arabic and Persian into Chinese.
• Three zijes:
• * Tāj al‐azyāj wa‐ghunyat al‐muḥtāj, also known as Al‐muṣaḥḥaḥ bi‐adwār al‐anwār maʿa al‐raṣad wa‐ʾl‐iʿtibār.
• * Adwār al‐anwār madā al‐duhūr wa‐ʾl‐akwār: contains results of the astronomical observations he carried out in Marāgha.
• * ʿUmdat al‐ḥāsib wa‐ghunyat al‐ṭālib
• Three commentaries on Ptolemy's Almagest:
• * Talkhīṣ al‐Majisṭī : based on his observations carried out between 1264 and 1275 CE.
• * Khulāṣat al‐Majisṭī
• * Muqaddimāt tataʿallaq bi‐ḥarakāt al‐kawākib : contains five geometric premises on the planetary motions in the Almagest.

  Astrology

Mathematics