al-Kāshī: References & Edit History

Mohammad Bagheri, “A Newly Found Letter of al-Kāshī on Scientific Life in Samarkand,” Historia Mathematica, 24(3):241–256 (August 1997), is a translation of al-Kāshī’s first letter to his father from the court of Ulūgh Beg.

A translation of al-Kāshī’s second letter to his father appears in E.S. Kennedy, “A Letter of Jamshīd al-Kāshī to His Father: Scientific Research and Personalities at a Fifteenth Century Court,” in E.S. Kennedy et al., Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences (1983), pp. 722–744.

Information on al-Kāshī’s astronomical work can be found in E.S. Kennedy (trans.), The Planetary Equatorium of Jamshīd Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Kāshī (1960); and “On the Contents and Significance of the Khāqānī Zīj by Jamshīd al-Dīn al-Kāshī,” Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy, vol. 84 (1998).

Description of a Persian zīj can be found in E.S. Kennedy, “Spherical Astronomy in Kāshī’s Khāqānī Zīj,” Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 2:1–46 (1985).

Al-Kāshī’s mathematical achievements as well as his planetary equatorium are explained in J.L. Berggren, Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam (1986).

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, “Practical Arabic Mathematics: Measuring the Muqarnas by al-Kāshī,” Centaurus 35(3–4):193–242 (1992), includes an English translation of a chapter from the Key of Arithmetic.