Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Ṯābit ibn Qurraẗ

PERSON

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurrah

Name (arabic)	أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرة
Name (translit)	Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurrah
Alias	Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān
Born	0908 CE/ 0295 AH
Flourished
Died	0946 CE/ 0334 AH
Lived in	Baghdad
Number in MAMS	174
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibrahim_ibn_Sinan_BEA.htm
ismi_id	62099

Authored Works

13 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Kitāb al-ruḫāmaẗ , كتاب الرخامة

Kitāb fī ālāt al-aẓlāl (Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān) , كتاب في آلات الأظلال

Risālaẗ fī al-asṭurlāb , رسالة في الأسطرلاب

Astronomy: General

Kitāb fī aġrāḍ kitāb al-Majisṭī , كتاب في أغراض کتاب المجسطي

Kitāb fī ḥarakāt al-šams , كتاب في حركات الشمس

Kitāb fīmā kāna Baṭlamyūs al-Qalawḏī istaʿmalahu ʿalỳ sabīl al-tasāhul fī istiḫrāj iḫtilāfāt Zuḥal wa-ʾl-Mirrīḫ wa-ʾl-Muštarī , كتاب فيما كان بطلميوس القلوذي استعمله علی سبيل التساهل في إستخراج إختلافات زحل والمرّيخ والمشتري

Geometry: General

Kitāb fī al-dawāʾir al-mutamāssaẗ , كتاب في الدوائر المتماسة

Kitāb fī misāḥaẗ al-qaṭʿ al-mukāfī , كتاب في مساحة القطع المكافي

Maqalaẗ fī rasm al-quṭūʿ al-ṯalāṯaẗ , مقالة في رسم القطوع الثلاثة

Maqālaẗ fī ṭarīq al-taḥlīl wa-ʾl-tarkīb wa-sāʾir al-aʿmāl fī al-masāʾil al-handasiyyaẗ , مقالة في طريق التحليل والتركيب وسائر الأعمال في المسائل الهندسية

Risālaẗ fī waṣf al-maʿānī allatī istaḫrajahā fī al-handasaẗ wa-ʿilm al-nujūm , رسالة افي وصف المعاني التي استخرجها في الهندسة وعلم النجوم

Tafsīr al-maqālaẗ al-ūlỳ min al-Maḫrūṭāt , تفسير المقالة الأولی من المخروطات

Mathematics: General

al-Masāʾil al-muḫtāraẗ , المسائل المختارة

References

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Pp. 73-74 (174).

Rashed, Roshdi, and Hélène Bellosta. 2000. Ibrāhīm Ibn Sinān : Logique et Géométrie Au Xe Siècle. Leiden; Boston: E. J. Brill.

ibn Sinān, Ibrahīm, Paul Luckey, and Jan Hogendijk. 1999. Die Schrift Des Ibrāhīm B. Sinān B. Ṯābit über Die Schatteninstrumente. Frankfurt am Main: Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University.

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Saʻīdān Aḥmad. 1983. Rasāʾil Ibn-Sinān [The Works of Ibrahīm Ibn Sinān]. al-Kuwait: Qism at-Turāt al-ʻArabī; al-Maǧlis al-Aʻlā li-’t̲-T̲aqāfa wa-’l-Funūn wa-’l-Ādab.

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