PERSON

Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ashʿarī al-Yamanī al-Nassābah al-Ḥanafī

Name (arabic)

أبو الحسن أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم الأشعري اليمني النسّابة الحنفي

Name (translit)

Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ashʿarī al-Yamanī al-Nassābah al-Ḥanafī

Alias

Aḥmad al-Ashʿarī al-Yamanī

Flourished

493H/1100J

Lived in

Number in MAMS

447

ismi_id

186072

Authored Works

1 works:

Mathematics: Applied

al-Tuffāḥah fī ʿilm al-misāḥah , التفّاحة في علم المساحة

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P. 131.

King, David. 1983. Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Bibliographical Survey. Malibu: Undena Publications.

P. 54.

al-ʿAzzāwī ʿAbbās. 1958. Taʾrīkh ʿilm Al-Falak Fī Al-ʿIrāq Wa-ʿalaqātihi Bi-Al-aqṭār Al-islāmiyyah Wa-Al-Gharbiyyah Fī Al-ʿuhūd Al-tāliyah Li-ayyām Al-ʻAbbāsiyyīn. Baghdad: Maṭbaʿat al-majmaʿ al-ʿilmī al-ʿIrāqī.

P. 231.

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