Abū Naṣr Samawʾal al-Muẓaffar ibn Yaḥyỳ ibn ʿAbbās al-Maġribī al-Isrā’īlī al-Andalusī

PERSON

Abū Naṣr Samawʾal al-Muẓaffar ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʿAbbās al-Maghribī al-Isrāʾīlī al-Andalusī

Name (arabic)	أبو نصر سموأل المظفّر بن يحيى بن عبّاس المغربي الإسرائيلي الأندلسي
Name (translit)	Abū Naṣr Samawʾal al-Muẓaffar ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʿAbbās al-Maghribī al-Isrāʾīlī al-Andalusī
Alias	Samawʾal المضفر بن يحيى المغربي المعروف بالسمول al-Muẓaffar ibn Yaḥyá al-Maghribī al-maʿrūf bi-al-Samawʾal Samawʾal ibn Yaḥyá al-Maghribī
Flourished
Died	116x CE/ 055x AH
Born in	Baghdad
Lived in	Baghdad Marāgha
Student of	Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Abī al-Maʿālī al-Daskarī Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Shahrazūrī Zayn al-Dīn Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Malkā al-Baladī al-Yahūdī al-Baghdādī
Number in MAMS	487
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Samaw%27al_BEA.htm
ismi_id	24831

Authored Works

17 works:

Algebra

al-Zāhir fī al-jabr , الزاهر في الجبر

Risālah ilá Ibn Khashshāb fī masāʾil ḥisābiyyah jabr wa-al-muqābalah , رسالة إلى بن خشّاب في مسائل حسابيّة جبر والمقابلة

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

al-Kitāb al-bāhir fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb , الكتاب الباهر في علم الحساب

al-Kitāb al-mūjaz al-Mawḍūʿī fī al-ḥisāb , الكتاب الموجز الموضوعي في الحساب

al-Kitāb al-Qiwāmī fī al-ḥisāb al-hindī , الكتاب القوامي في الحساب الهندي

al-Tabṣirah fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb , التبصرة في علم الحساب

Manẓūmah hisāb al-yad , منظومة حساب اليد

Astronomy: General

Kitāb al-tahdhīb fī ṣināʿat al-nujūm , كتاب التهذيب في صناعة النجوم

Kitāb fī kashf ʿawār al-munajjimīn wa-ghalaṭihim fī akthar al-aʿmāl wa-al-aḥkām , كتاب في كشف عوار المنجّمين وغلطهم في اكثر الأعمال والأحكام

Geometry: General

Kitāb al-muthallath al-qāʾim al-zāwiyah , كتاب المثلّث القائم الزاوبة

Kitāb fī iʿjāz al-muhandisīn , كتاب في إعجاز المهندسين

Mathematics: Applied

Kitāb al-minbar fī misāḥat al-jawāhir al-mukhtaliṭah li-istikhrāj majhūlihā , كتاب المنبر في مساحة الجواهر المختلطة لإستخراج مجهولها

Mathematics: General

al-Kāfī fī hisāb al-dirham wa-al-dīnār , الكافي في حساب الدرهم والدينار

al-Maṣḥaf al-mukhtaraʿ fī muʿjizāt ṣināʿat al-ʿadad , المصحف المخترع في معجزات صناعة العدد

Risālah fī taḥlīl wa-al-tarkīb , رسالة في تحليل والتركيب

Sharḥ li-kitāb Diyūfānṭus al-Iskandarānī , شرح لكتاب ديوفانطس الإسكندراني

[Commentary on “Book of Proof of Operations of Two Errors” of Qusṭā ibn Lūqā]

References

Naderi, Negar. 2007. “Samawʾal: Abū Naṣr Samawʾal Ibn Yaḥyā Ibn ʿAbbās al‐Maghribī al‐Andalusī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Springer Reference, 1009. New York: Springer.

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. 184-86 (no. 487).

Harvey, Ruth. 1997. “Samuʾil Ibn ʿAbbās Al-Maghribī”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine In Non-Western Cultures, 882.

Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 1, p. 643; suppl. 1, p. 892.

Berggren, J.Lennart. 1986. Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Pp. 113-17.

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. 148.

Rashed, Roshdi. 1984. Entre arithmétique Et algèbre: Recherches Sur l’histoire Des mathématiques Arabes. Paris: Société d’édition Les Belles lettres.

Pp. 71-91.

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. 344-47.

Rashed, Roshdi. 1978. “L’histoire D’algèbre Et L’invention Des Fractions Décimales: Al-Samawʾal”. In International Symposium for the History of Arabic Sciences Proceedings I, 2:133.

Rashed, Roshdi. 1977. “L’Histoire d’algèbre Et l’invention Des Fractions décimales: Al-Samawʾal ”. In International Symposium for the History of Arabic Sciences Proceedings I, 1:169-86.

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Rosenthal, Franz. 1950. “Al-Asṭurlâbî and As-Samaw’al on Scientific Progress”. Osiris 9: 555-64.

Lippert, Julius, and Jamāl Al-Qifṭī. 1903. “Taʾrīḫ Al-hukamāʾ”. Leipzig: Theodor Weicher.

P. 209.

Hirschfeld, Hartwig. 1901. “Abbās, Samuel Abu Nasr Ibn”. In Jewish Encyclopaedia, 1:37-38. New York.

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. 124-25.

Uṣaybiʻah, Ibn. 1884. ʿUyūn Al-anbāʾ Fī ṭabaqāt Al-aṭibbāʾof Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʻah. Ed. August Müller. 2 vol. Cairo‐Königsberg: al-Maṭbaʻah al-Wahbīyah.

Vol. 2, p. 30.

Leclerc, Lucien. 1876. Histoire De La médecine Arabe: Exposé Complet Des Traductions Du Grec; Les Sciences En Orient, Leur Transmission à l’Occident Par Les Traductions Latines. 2 vol. Paris: E. Leroux.

Vol. 2, pp. 12-17.

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.

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Barhebraeus,. 1783. Des Gregorius Abulfaradsch Kurze Geschichte Der Dynastien; Oder, Auszug Der Allgemeinen Welt-Geschichte Besonders Der Geschichte Der Chalifen Und Mogolen. Trans. Georg Bauer. 2 vol. Leipzig: A.G. Böhme.

P. 268.

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P. 408.

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

Vol. 2, pp. 401-2.

al-Ziriklī Hairaddīn. Al-Aʿlam : Qāmūs Tarāǧim Li-Ašhar Al-Riǧāl Wa-Al-Nisāʾ Min Al-ʿarab Wa-Al-Mustaʿribīn Wa-Al-Mustašriqīn. 10 vol. Al-Qāhira.

Vol. 3, p. 205.