Abd al-Wajid
{{Short description|Persian astronomer}}
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| name = ʿAbd al-Wājid
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| native_name = عبد الواجد حنفی
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| birth_place = Mashhad, Iran
| death_date = 1434
| death_place = Kütahya, Aegean Region, Ottoman Empire (Now Turkey)
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| main_interests = Astronomy
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| influences = Maragheh observatory, Shams al-Din al-Fanari, Jaghmīnī, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi{{sfn|Topdemir|2007}}
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Badr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Wājid (or Wāḥid) ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (Persian: عبدالواجب حنفی; died 1434) was a 15th century Persian astronomer. He was born in Mashhad, in modern Iran, and died in Kütahya, in modern Turkey, He taught in the Ottoman Demirkapi Madrasa, a school for astronomical observation and instruction. The Demirkapi madrasa was later renamed as the Wājidiyya Madrasa in his honour.{{sfn|Topdemir|2007}}
Together with Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, he brought the influence of the Maragheh observatory to Anatolia.{{sfn|Topdemir|2007}}
Works
- {{transliteration|ar|Sharḥ al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-hayʾa}} ("A commentary on the Compendium of Astronomy"), a commentary on the work by Jaghmīnī. The commentary was dedicated to Sultan Murād II.
- Sharḥ Sī faṣl, a commentary on Ṭūsī's Persian work of astronomy. Translated into Turkish by Ahmed-i Dāʿī.
- Maʿālim al-awqāt wa-sharḥuhu, a work in the use of astrolabe written in verse using 552 couplets. Dedicated to Muḥammad Shāh (d. 1406), the son of al-Fanārī (d. 1431).{{sfn|Topdemir|2007}}
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Hockey |editor1-first=Thomas | last = Topdemir | first = Hüseyin |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |chapter=Wābkanawī: Shams al-Munajjim [Shams al-Dīn] Muḥammad ibn ҁAlī Khwāja al-Wābkanawī [Wābkanawī] |date=2007 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4419-9918-4 |url-access=subscription |pages= 1187–1188|edition=|url=https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7 |access-date=|language=|display-editors=etal |doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1433}} ([http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Abd_al-Wajid_BEA.pdf PDF version])
Further reading
- {{cite journal |last1=Sayili |first1=Aydin |author1-link=Aydin Sayili |title=The Wajidiyya Madrasa of Kutahya: A Turkish Medieval Observatory? |journal=Belleten |date=1948 |volume=12 |pages=655{{ndash}}677 |url=https://belleten.gov.tr/tam-metin-pdf/901/eng |ref=none |language=tr,en}}
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