PERSON

Dunash ibn Tamīm ibn Yaʿqūb al-Isrāʾīlī al-Qarawī

Name (arabic)

دنش بن تميم بن يعقوب الإسرائيلي القروي

Name (translit)

Dunash ibn Tamīm ibn Yaʿqūb al-Isrāʾīlī al-Qarawī

Alias

Dunash ibn Tamīm
Dunash al-Qarawī

Flourished

286H/900J

Lived in

Student of

Number in MAMS

265

Biography URL

ismi_id

53700

Authored Works

4 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Kitāb fī al-ʿamal bi-al-ālah al-falakiyyah al-maʿrūfah bi-dhāt al-ḥalaq , كتاب في العمل بالآلة الفلكيّة المعروفة بذات الحلق

Astronomy: General

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

al-Kitāb al-maʿrūf bi-al-sābiʿ wa-al-ʿishrīn , الكتاب المعروف بالسابع والعشرين

References

Langermann, Y.Tzvi. 2007. “Dunash Ibn Tamim”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, a:315. 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. 99 (no. 265).

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

Suppl. 1, p. 868.

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

Pp. 295-97.

Jospe, R. 1990. “Early Philosophical Commentaries to Sefer Yesirah: Some Comments”. Revue Des études Juives 149: 369-415.

Places Dunash's commentary in context, although the content is hardly discussed.

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. 182-83.

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

Pp. 196-97.