Ma Yize

Ma Yize

Ma Yize (ca. 910 - 1005) was an important Arab-Chinese Islamic astronomer and astrologist who worked as the chief official of the astronomical observatory for the Song dynasty.

In the early 10th Century, the Chinese emperor of the Song dynasty encouraged the advancement of the study of astronomy and its related disciplines. In 961, the Emperor Taizu (r. 960-976) appointed Ma Yize (910?-1005) as the chief official to take charge of the government observatory.

Ma Yize's ancestor were Arabs coming from an area somewhere between Yemen and Oman in the Arabic Peninsula. Ma is a Sinicised form of the name "Muhammad" [http://www.cpamedia.com/politics/hui_muslims_in_china/] .When Ma Yize was in China, he assisted Wang Chuna in compiling several important astrological works, including the Yingtianli (Calendar of Corresponding Heavens). His job was to provide observation, and computation of the regularities in celestial phenomena, using the Islamic methods. His findings were used by Wang Chuna in the compilation of Yingtianli, which was completed in 963. The calculation, based on a 7-day week system similar to that in the Islamic calendar, was first adopted in this document, which was the most important occurrence in the Chinese history of calendrical methods.

Ma Yize might have consulted many works of Islamic mathematical astronomy into Chinese, including:

* Kitab al-Zij [Al-Battani sive Albatenni Opus astronomicum] , 880, by Abu'Abdallah al-Battani [Latin: Albategni or Albatenius] , 858-929
* al-Zij al-sabi [The Sabian Tables]
* Kitab Matali' al-Buruj [On the Ascensions of the Signs of the Zodiac]
* Kitab Aqdar al- Ittisalat [On the Quantities of the Astrological Applications]

It is possible that Ma was influenced by Al-Battani and Al-Hamdani. Owing to Ma's contribution to the compilation of 'Yingtianli', Ma was made a hereditary noble and his sons later succeeded his position with the Imperial Observatory.

ee also

* List of Arab scientists
* History of the Song Dynasty
* Technology of the Song Dynasty
* Islam during the Song Dynasty

References

* [http://library.ust.hk/info/colloq/jun2002/fung-synopsis.html Al-Battani, (858?-929) and Ma Yize (910?-1005)]
* [http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/song/essay.html The Song Dynasty]


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