Abu_Muqri_Mohammed_al-Battiwi

Abu Muqri Mohammed al-Battiwi

Abu Muqri Mohammed al-Battiwi

Moroccan astronomer

Abu Muqri (or Miqra) Mohammed ibn Ali al-Battiwi (Arabic: أبو مقرئ محمد البطوي) (fl. 1331) was a Moroccan astronomer who wrote a poem (urzaja) on the calendar, astronomy and the determination of the hours of Moslem prayer.[1] According to the German orientalist Carl Brockelmann, al-Battiwi was the commanding general of the Marinid sultan of Morocco, Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman.[2]

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His work was commented upon in the 15th century by Abd al-Rahman al-Jadiri, the muwaqqit (time-keeper) at the Qarawiyyin Mosque, and the mathematician Al-Qalasadi.[2][3] He was a native of the Rif region of Morocco.

References

  1. [1]
    Hunwick 1999, p. 66.
  2. [2]
    Brockelmann 1898, p. 255.
  3. [3]
    G.S. Colin and H.P.J. Renaud, "Note sur le "muwaqqit" marocain Abu Muqri ou mieux Abu Miqra-al Battiwi", Hespéris XXV (1938), p. 94-6

Sources

  • Brockelmann, Carl (1898). Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (in German). Vol. 2. Berlin: Weimar E. Felber. OCLC 871501067.
  • Hunwick, John O., ed. (1999). Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire Al-Saʻdi's Taʼrīkh Al-Sūdān Down to 1613, and Other Contemporary Documents. Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-90041-1-207-0.

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