Abū al-Qāsim Maslamaẗ ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥāsib al-Faraḍī al-Majrīṭī

PERSON

Abū al-Qāsim Maslamah ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥāsib al-Faraḍī al-Majrīṭī

Name (arabic)	أبو القاسم مسلمة بن أحمد الحاسب الفرضي المجريطي
Name (translit)	Abū al-Qāsim Maslamah ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥāsib al-Faraḍī al-Majrīṭī
Alias	Majrīṭī Ibn Aḥmad al-Majrīṭī Maslamah al‐Majrīṭī
Flourished
Died	397H/1007J
Born in	Madrid
Lived in	Cordova Madrid Andalusia
Died in	Cordova
Teacher of	Abū Muslim ʿUmar ibn Aḥmad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī Abū Bakr Yaḥyá ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿUthmān Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Baghūnish Ibn al-Ṣaffār: Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Ghāfiqī ibn al-Ṣaffār al-Andalusī Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Zahrāwī Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Samḥ al-Gharnāṭī
Number in MAMS	281
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Majriti_BEA.htm
ismi_id	50599

Authored Works

9 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Kitāb fī thimār al-ʿadad , كتاب في ثمار العدد

Astronomical Instruments

Abwāb lā yastaghnī man yarūmu ʿamal al-asṭurlāb ʿanhā wa-istashaltuhā min al-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ , أبواب لا يستغني من يروم عمل الأسطرلاب عنها واستسهلتها من الشكل القطّاع

Fī ʿamal al-asṭurlāb wa-al-ʿamal bihi , في عمل الأسطرلاب والعمل به

Taʿlīq ʿalá kitāb Baṭlamyūs fī tasṭīḥ basīṭ al-kurah , تعليق علی كتاب بطلميوس في تسطيح بسيط الكرة

Astronomical Tables/zījes

[Revision of Zīj of al-Khwārizmī]

Astronomy: General

Risālah masqaṭ al-nuṭfah wa-kayfiyyah taʾthīrat al-kawākib fī al-mawlūd min Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ , رسالة مسقط النطفة وكيفيّة تأثيرة الكواكب في المولود من رسائل إخوان الصفاء

[Astronomical treatises from Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ] (al-Majrīṭī)

[Revision of Astronomical and Astrological Treatises of Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ]

Geometry: General

[Revision of the Work of Ibn Qurrah on Figure of Secants]

References

Casulleras, Josep. 2007. “Majrīṭī: Abū al‐Qāsim Maslama Ibn Aḥmad al‐Ḥāsib al‐Faraḍī al‐Majrīṭī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 727-28. New York: Springer-Verlag.

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.

P. 106 (no. 281).

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

Vol. 1, p. 281; suppl. 1, pp. 431-32.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 3, Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 294-98.

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. 194-95.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 226-27.

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

Pp. 334-35.

Ṭūqān Qadrī. 1963. Turāth Al-ʿArab Al-ʿilmī Fī Al-riyāḍīyāt Wa-Al-Falak. Cairo: Dār al-Qalam.

Pp. 257-59.

Rénaud, Henri. 1932. “Additions Et Corrections à Suter Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber”. Isis 18 (1): 166-83.

P. 179.

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

Pp. 326-27.

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

P. 167.

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. 76-77.

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. 39.

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. 1, pp. 668-69; vol. 3, pp. 92, 345, 460, 500; vol. 4, pp. 166, 300; vol. 5, pp. 166, 300; vol. 6, pp. 280, 282.

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

Pp. 668-69.