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]

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

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.

Further reading

• Colin, G.S.; Renaud, H.P.J. (1938). "Note sur le "muwaqqit" marocain Abu Muqri ou mieux Abu Miqra-al Battiwi" [On the Moroccan muwaqqit Abu Muqri, also known as Abu Miqra-al Battiwi]. Hespéris (in French). 25 (1). Institut des Hautes Études Marocaines: 94–96.