PERSON

Banū Mūsá

Name (arabic)

بنو موسى

Name (translit)

Banū Mūsá

Alias

Banū Mūsā

Flourished

Lived in

Student of

Teacher of

Notes

The three sons of Mūsá ibn Shākir, generally known under the single name of the Banū Mūsá. See also the three sons: Muḥammad, Aḥmad, and Ḥasan.

Number in MAMS

74

Biography URL

ismi_id

102917

Authored Works

18 works:

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Astronomy: General

Kitāb al-darajāt fī ṭabāʾiʿ al-burūj , كتاب الدرجات في طبائع البروج
Kitāb al-masʾalah allatī alqāhā ʿalá Sanad ibn ʿAlī , كتاب المسألة التي ألقاها على سند بن علي
Kitāb al-masʾalah allatī jarat bayna Sanad wa-bayna Aḥmad , كتاب المسألة التي جرت بين سند وبين أحمد
Kitāb bayyana fīhī bi-ṭarīq taʿlīmī wa-madhhab handasī annahū laysa fī khārij kurat al-kawākib al-thābitah kurah tāsiʿah , كتاب بيّن فيه بطريق تعليمي ومذهب هندسي أنه ليس في خارج قرة الكواكب الثابتة قرة تاسعة
Kitāb fī sanat al-shams , كتاب في سنة الشمس
Ruyʾat al-hilāl ʿalá raʾy Abī Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Mūsá ibn Shākir , رؤية الهلال على رأي أبي جعفر محمد بن موسى بن شاكر

Astronomy: Practical

Kitāb fī ʿamal al-asṭurlāb , كتاب في عمل الأسطرلاب

Geometry: General

Islāḥ Kitāb al-Makhrūṭāt li-Abulūniyūs , إصلاح كتاب المخروطات لأبلونيوس
Kitāb Abūlūnyūs fī al-makhrūṭāt , كتاب أبولونيوس في المخروطات
Kitāb al-shakl al-handasī alladhī bayyanahu Jālīnūs , كتاب الشكل الهندسي الذي بيّنه جالينوس
Kitāb maʿrifah masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kuriyyah , كتاب معرفة مساحة الأشكال البسيطة والكريّة
Qawl Aḥmad ibn Shākir fī tathlīth al-zāwiyah , قول أحمد ابن شاكر في تثليث الزاوية
Ṣadr lī-Banū Mūsá lī-kitāb Abūlūnyūs fī al-makhrūṭāt , صدر لبنو موسى لكتاب أبولونيوس في المخروطات

Mathematics: General

Kitāb al-shakl al-mudawwar al-mustaṭīl , كتاب الشكل المدوّر المستطيل

TECHNOLOGY

Kitāb al-ḥiyal (Banū Mūsá) , كتاب الحيل
Kitāb fī al-qarasṭūn , كتاب في القرسطون

References

Casulleras, Josep. 2007. “Banū Mūsā”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 1:92-94. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Hogendijk, Jan. 2003. “The Geometric Problems Of Nuʿaim Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Mūsā (9Th Century)”. Sciamvs 4: 59-136.
Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers And Other Scholars Of Islamic Civilisation And Their Works (7Th-19Th C.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

Pp. 34-36.

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers And Other Scholars Of Islamic Civilisation And Their Works (7Th-19Th C.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

Pp. 34-36 (no. 74).

Hill, Donald, Aḥmad Al-Ḥassan, Maqbul Ahmed, and A. Iskandar. 2001. “Mechanical Technology”. In The Different Aspects Of Islamic Culture, Vol. 4: Science and Technology in Islam. Part 2: Technology and Applied Sciences.:165-192. Beirut: UNESCO.
Al-Ḥassan, Aḥmad, Aḥmad Al-Ḥassan, Maqbul Ahmed, and A. Iskandar. 2001. “Mining And Metallurgy”. In The Different Aspects Of Islamic Culture, Vol. 4: Science and Technology in Islam. Part 2, Technology and Applied Sciences:85-87. Beirut: UNESCO.
Hill, Donald. 1997. “Mūsā, Banū”. In Encyclopaedia Of The History Of Science, Technology, And Medicine In Non-Western Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, 150-51. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Hill, Donald. 1993. “Mūsā, Banū”. In Encyclopaedia Of Islam, New Edition, 2nd ed., 7:640-641. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
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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, pp. 61-64 (no. 43).

Al-Ḥassan, Aḥmad. 1981. Kitāb Al-Ḥiyal Taṣnīf Banū Mūsā Ibn Shākir [The Book Of Ingenious Devices By The Sons Of Mūsā Ibn Shākir]. Aleppo/Ḥalab: University of Aleppo, Institute for the History of Arabic science/Gāmiʿaẗ Ḥalab, Maʿhad al-Turāṯ al-ʿIlmī al-ʿArabī.
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Ibn Shākir, Banū, and Donald Hill. 1979. The Book Of Ingenious Devices [Kitāb Al-Ḥiyal]. Dordrecht; Boston: D. Reidel.
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Pp. 147-48.

Sabra, Abdelhamid. 1976. “The Sons Of Musa Bin Shakir (Banu Musa)”. In The Genius Of Arab Civilization: Source Of Renaissance (Gac), ed. John Hayes, 136-37. Oxford: Phaidon Press.
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