Talk:Zij as-Sindhind

Disambiguating al-Baghdādī

Following up on Narky Blert's request. The reference used to support al-Baghdādī's involvement, sort of mentions this on page 13. Among other Muslim scientists, Ḥabash ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Baghdādī adopted and developed the Sindhind system. Note that it does not speak of a book as our current article seems to do. Some further investigation leads me to believe that Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi ("Habash the Calculator of Merv") is the al-Baghdādī we're looking for, having gained the nisbah as he flourished in Baghdad.

However, because the current article seems to describe one particular book ("Zīj al-Sindhind [...] is a work of zij"; "This is the first of many Arabic Zij") by Fazārī, I think the line about al-Baghdādī and al-Khwārizmī should not be in there at all. Either that, or the article has to be rewritten to treat the Sindhind system in general, like the Arabic wikipage does. --HyperGaruda (talk) 05:28, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

@HyperGaruda: Outstanding research! With the sources so murky, it would be WP:OR to pick one man or the other. The solution might be to omit the information, or to explain the problem in a WP:NPOV "could be this, could be that" footnote, or to rewrite the article more broadly. Narky Blert (talk) 06:33, 21 July 2020 (UTC)