Shams al-Dīn al-Bukhārī

Flourished Middle to late thirteenth century

Shams al-Dīn al-Bukhārī is cited in various Greek versions of Arabic and Persian astronomical handbooks (zījes), versions that were made in the last decade of the thirteenth century in Marāgha and Tabrīz. These zījes include al-Zīj al-Sanjarī, composed in Arabic in the mid-twelfth century by ^ҁAbd al-Raḥmān al-Khāzinī and dedicated to the Saljūq Sultan Sanjar (reigned: 1118–1157); al-Zīj al- ^ҁAlā’ī, composed in Arabic by ^ҁAbd al-Karīm al-Shirwānī al-Fahhād (mid-twelfth century), but no longer extant in Arabic; and, al-Zīj-I Īlkhānī, composed circa 1270 in Persian by Naṣ īr al- Dīn al- Ṭūsī . The Persian text survives in many copies, and there is also an Arabic version. The Greek versions of all three are found in the following manuscripts: Florence Laur. gr. 28/17, Vat. gr. 211, and Vat. gr. 1058. The Greek version of the Īlkhānī zīj is much more widespread, being found in manuscripts in many collections. The Arabic version of the Sanjarīis...