PERSON

Abū al-Ṣaqr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Qabīṣī

Name (arabic)

أبو الصقر عبد العزيز بن عثمان بن علي القبيصي

Name (translit)

Abū al-Ṣaqr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Qabīṣī

Alias

Alcabitius
Abū al-Ṣaqr al-Qabīṣī
Alchabitius

Flourished

Student of

Number in MAMS

205

Biography URL

ismi_id

57661

Authored Works

10 works:

Astrology

Al-Madkhal ilá ṣināʿah aḥkām al-nujūm , المدخل إلی صناعة أحكام النجوم
Fī qirānāt al-kawākib fī al-burūj , في قرانات الكواكب في البروج
Masāʾil yumtaḥanu bi-hā al-munajjimūn , مسائل يمتحن بها المنجمون
Risālah fī imtiḥān al-munajjimīn , رسالة في إمتحان المنجمين

Astronomical Tables/zījes

ʿIlal al-zījāt , علل الزيجات

Astronomy: General

Risālah fī al-abʿād wa-al-ajrām (Qabīṣī) , رسالة في الأبعاد والأجرام

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Sharḥ Kitāb al-fuṣūl lil-Farghānī (Qabīṣī) , شرح كتاب الفصول للفرغاني
Shukūk al-Majisṭī (Qabīṣī) , شكوك المجسطي

Number Theory

Risālah fī anwāʾ al-aʿdād wa-ṭarāʾif min al-aʿmāl mimmā jamaʿahu min mutaqaddimī ahl al-ʾilm bi-hādhihī al-ṣināʿah , رسالة في أنواع الأعداد وطرائف من الأعمال مما جمعه من متقدمي أهل العلم بهذه الصناعة

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‐Qabīsī, Al. 2004. Al‐Qabīsī's The Introduction To Astrology. Eds. Charles Burnett, Yamamoto, Keiji, and Yano, Michio. London: Warburg Institute.
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King, David, George Saliba, and Jacques Sesiano. 1987. “A Treatise By Al‐Qabīsī (Alchabitius) On Arithmetical Series”. In From Deferent To Equant: A Volume Of Studies In The History Of Science In The Ancient And Medieval Near East In Honor Of E. S. Kennedy, 483-500. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.
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