Flourished: ninth century. Ādamī is noted for his work on instruments. Ibn al-Ādamī, presumably his son (fl. ca 925 Baghdad), wrote an influential astronomical handbook with tables (zīj) that was based upon Indian sources. The father is mentioned in Ibn al-Nadīm’s Fihrist (2: 663), where he is called al-Ādamī. The two names have often been confused in modern sources. [Ragep]