PERSON

Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Yūsuf al-Ṣardafī al-Yamanī

Name (arabic)

أبو يعقوب إسحاق بن يوسف الصردفي اليمني

Name (translit)

Abū Yaʿqūb Isḥāq ibn Yūsuf al-Ṣardafī al-Yamanī

Alias

Isḥāq al-Ṣardafī
Abū Yaʿqūb Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Ṣardafī al-Yamanī

Flourished

Died

493H/1100J

Lived in

Number in MAMS

411

ismi_id

65136

Authored Works

3 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Kitāb ḍarb al-hindī , کتاب ضرب الهندي

Inheritance

Al-Kāfī fī al-farāʾiḍ , الکافي في الفرائض

Mathematics: General

Kifāyat al-muhtadī wa-ijābat al-mahdī , کفاية المهتدي وإجابة المهدي

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P. 166 (no. 411).

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

Vol. 1, p. 620; suppl. 1, p. 855.

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. 131.

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. 311 (no. 260).

King, David. 1983. Mathematical Astronomy in Medieval Yemen: A Bibliographical Survey. Malibu: Undena Publications.

Pp. 53-54.

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.

P. 111.

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. 5, pp. 21-22.