Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad ibn Muʿāḏ al-Jayyānī

PERSON

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī

Name (arabic)	أبو عبد الله محمد بن يوسف بن أحمد بن معاذ الجيّاني
Name (translit)	Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī
Alias	Abhomadi Malfegeyr Muḥammad al-Jayyānī Ÿuhanī Ibn Muʿādh Ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī
Born	378H/989J
Died	471H/1079J
Lived in	Jaén
Number in MAMS	340
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Muadh_BEA.htm
ismi_id	71721

Authored Works

7 works:

Astronomical Instruments

[Treatise on the Construction of the Astrolabe]

Astronomy: General

Tabulae Jahen

[On a Solar Eclipse]

Mathematics: General

Maqālah fī sharḥ al-nisbah , مقالة في شرح النسبة

Meteorology

De crepusculis et nubium ascensionibus liber unus

Spherics

Kitāb majhūlāt qisiy al-kurah , كتاب مجهولات قسي الكرة

TECHNOLOGY

Kitāb al-asrār fī natāʾij al-afkār , كتاب الأسرار في نتائج الأفكار

References

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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. 140 (no. 340).

Smith, Mark. 1997. “Ibn Muʿādh”. In Encyclopaedia Of The History Of Science, Technology, And Medicine In Non‐Western Cultures, 426. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

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Samsó, Julio, Honorino Mielgo, and Julio Samsó. 1994. “Ibn Isḥāq Al‐Tūnisī And Ibn Muʿādh Al‐Jayyānī On The Qibla”. In Islamic Astronomy And Medieval Spain. Vol. VI. Aldershot: Variorum.

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Goldstein, Bernard, and Mark Smith. 1993. “The Medieval Hebrew And Italian Versions Of Ibn Muʿādh's On Twilight And The Rising Of Clouds”. Nuncius 8 (2): 611-643.

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Vol. 2, pp. 257-58; vol. 3, p. 366.

Villuendas, Maria. 1979. La Trigonometría Europea En El Siglo Xi : Estudio De La Obra De Ibn Muʿād: El Kitāb Mayhūlāt. Barcelona: Instituto de Historia de la Ciencia de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras.

Lindberg, David. 1976. Theories Of Vision From Al-Kindī To Kepler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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

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P. 77.

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P. 170.

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.

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Bashkuwāl, Ibn. 1883. Aben-Pascualis Assila. Ed. Francisco Codera y Zaidín. Biblioteca Arabico-Hispana. Madrid: Apud Josephum de Rojas.

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