Al-Kum al-Rishi
Ahmad bin Ghulamallah bin Ahmad bin Mahammad, Shihab al-Din al-Kum al-Rishi al-Qahiri was an Egyptian astronomer from Kum al-Rish region in Cairo. So, his nickname among astronomers became Al-Kum al-Rishi. He is considered one of the greatest astronomers of his time, he worked in the art of the stars and began solving zij and writing calendars. He was appointed as a timekeeper at Al-Muayyad Mosque in Cairo.
Works
He wrote very important books on astronomy, where he described the planets and stars accurately and explained their surfaces with great progress for his time.- Kifayat al-Ta'leem fi wad'e al-Taqaweem: Al-Thanawi quoted it in Kashshaf Istilāhāt al-Funūn.
- Nuzhat al-Nazir fi tashih zij Ibn al-Shater: It is a summary and correction of the zij of Ibn al-Shatir.
- Al-Lum’ah fī ḥall al-kawākib al-sabʻah: A summary of his book “Nuzhat al-Nazir”. His book included mathematical tables, such as a table for extracting Hebrew history from Arabic and vice versa. The literary style is evident in it. He says in the introduction to Al-Lum’ah: “As for what follows, when I saw that the desire to seek knowledge had diminished in its shadow, its inclination was far from the rate of seeking, it had fallen short of grasping the pinnacle of knowledge in its horses and feet, and its flow had descended to the bottom of understandings; They turned away from the lengthy ones, and tended to the abbreviations. I wrote my book called “Nuzhat al-Nazir” in Summarizing the zij of Ibn al-Shater, then I summarized it in a wonderful way and in an invincible way, containing the deeds in it in the easiest way to take it and the closest goal, and I called it “Al-Lum’ah fī ḥall al-kawākib al-sabʻah.”