PERSON

Abū ʿUthmān Sahl ibn Bishr ibn Ḥabīb ibn Hānī al-Isrāʾīlī al-Yahūdī

Name (arabic)

أبو عثمان سهل بن بشر بن حبيب بن هاني الإسرائيلي اليهودي

Name (translit)

Abū ʿUthmān Sahl ibn Bishr ibn Ḥabīb ibn Hānī al-Isrāʾīlī al-Yahūdī

Alias

Abū ʿUthmān Sahl ibn Bishr ibn Ḥabīb ibn Hājā al-Isrāʾīlī al-Yahūdī
Sahl ibn Bishr
Sahl ibn Bishr al-Isrāʾīlī
سهل بن بشر

Died

225H/840J

Lived in

Teacher of

Number in MAMS

50

ismi_id

101414

Authored Works

9 works:

Algebra

Kitāb al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah , كتاب الجبر والمقابلة

Astrology

Kitāb al-aḥkām ʿalá nuṣbat al-falakiyyah , كتاب الأحكام على نصبة الفلكيّة
Majmūʿ al-Shaykh Sahl ibn Bishr fī āḥkām taḥāwīl al-sinīn wa-ghayrihā , مجموع الشيخ سهل بن بشر في أحکام تحاويل السنين وغيرها
Risālah fī al-fuṣūl fī al-ṭawāliʿ wa-aḥkām al-nujūm , رسالة في الفصول في الطوالع واحکام النجوم

Astronomy: General

Kitāb al-awqāt , كتاب الأوقات
Kitāb al-ikhtiyārāt ʿalá al-buyūt al-ithnā ʿashar , كتاب الإختيارات على البيوت الاثنا عشر

Astronomy: Practical

Risālah fī al-khusūf wa-al-kusūf , رسالة في الخسوف والكسوف

Mathematics: Applied

Kitāb al-hayʾah wa-ʿilm al-ḥisāb , كتاب الهيئة وعلم الحساب

Meteorology

Fī al-amṭār wa-al-rīḥ , في الأمطار والريح

References

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P. 29 (no. 50).

King, David. 1986. A Survey Of The Scientific Manuscripts In The Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 33 (B15).

Matvievskaya, Galina, and Boris Rozenfeld. 1983. Matematiki I Astronomy Musulmanskogo Srednevekovya I Ikh Trudi, Viii-Xvii Vv [Mathematicians And Astronomers Of The Muslim Middle Ages And Their Works, Viii-Xvii Centuries]. 3 vol.. Moscow: Nauka.

Vol. 2, p. 51 (no. 26).

Sezgin, Fuat. 1979. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (Gas), Vol. 7, Astrologie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 125-28.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (Gas), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 245.

al-Nadīm, Ibn. 1970. The Fihrist Of Muḥammad Ibn Isḥāq Ibn Al-Nadīm: A Tenth-Century Survey Of Muslim Culture. Ed. Bayard Dodge. 2 vol.. New York: Columbia University Press.

Vol. 2, pp. 651-52.

Suter, Heinrich. 1902. “Nachträge Und Berichtigungen”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen 14: 157-85.

P. 160.

Suter, Heinrich. 1900. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke.. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen, Vol. 10. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.

Pp. 15-16.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol.. Leipzig: Vogel.

P. 274.

Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-Ẓunūn ʿAn Asāmī Al-Kutub Waʾl-Funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum A Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol.. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 5, p. 35; vol. 6, p. 6.

Sarton, George. Introduction To The History Of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol.. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 1, p. 569.