PERSON

Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qiwām al-Qāḍī al-Wālishtānī al-Harawī (al-Hirawī)

Name (arabic)

محمود بن محمّد بن محمّد بن قوام القاضي الوالشتاني الهروي

Name (translit)

Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qiwām al-Qāḍī al-Wālishtānī al-Harawī (al-Hirawī)

Alias

Maḥmūd al-Wālishtānī
Maḥmūd al-Harawī al-Hayʾawī
محمود بن محمد بن هوام الواشتاني
Maḥmūd al-Harawī

Flourished

848H/1445J

Lived in

Notes

Mahmud al-Hirawi al-Walishtani (fl. ca. 1445) was based at the court of Shāhrukh ibn Tīmūr in Herat.

Number in MAMS

832

ismi_id

4998

Authored Works

2 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Mukhtaṣar dar ʿilm-i ḥisāb , مختصر در علم حساب

Geometry: General

Fawāʾid-i Jamālī , فوائد جمالي

References

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P. 282 (no. 832)

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. 156 (G44).

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. 499.

Storey, Charles, and François De Blois. Persian Literature: A Bio‐Bibliographical Survey. 5 vol. London: Luzac.

Vol. 2, p. 9.