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

Flourished

Died

471H/1079J

Lived in

Number in MAMS

340

Biography URL

ismi_id

71721

Authored Works

7 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Astronomy: General

Mathematics: General

Maqālah fī sharḥ al-nisbah , مقالة في شرح النسبة

Meteorology

Spherics

Kitāb majhūlāt qisiy al-kurah , كتاب مجهولات قسي الكرة

TECHNOLOGY

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

References

Calvo, Emilia. 2007. “Ibn Muʿādh: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn Muʿādh Al-Jayyānī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 562-63. New York: Springer.
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.
Casulleras, Josep, Julio Samsó, and Julio Samsó. 1996. “Al‐Bīrūnī in al‐Andalus”. In From Baghdad to Barcelona: Essays on the History of the Islamic Exact Sciences in Honour of Prof. Juan Vernet, 2:583-612. Barcelona: Instituto "Millás Vallicrosa’’ de Historia de la Ciencia Árabe.
Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Suppl. 1, p. 860.

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.
Kennedy, Edward. 1994. “Ibn Muʿādh on the Astrological Houses”. Zeitschrift für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 9: 153-60.
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): 611-43.
Smith, Mark. 1992. “The Latin Version of Ibn Muʿādh’s Treatise On Twilight and the Rising of Clouds”. Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 2: 83-132.
Samsó, Julio. 1992. Las Ciencias De Los Antiguos En Al-Andalus. Madrid: Editorial MAPFRE.
Samsó, Julio. 1991. “Ibn Muʿāḏ”. In Lexikon Des Mittelalters, 5:319. München; Zürich: Artemis & Winkler.
King, David, George Saliba, and George Saliba. 1987. “The Height of the Atmosphere According to Muʾayyad Al-Dīn Al-ʿUrḍī, Quṭb Al-Dīn Al-Shīrāzī, and Ibn Muʿādh”. 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, 445-65. New York: New York Academy of Sciences; Blackwell.
Wüstenfeld, Ferdinand. 1986. Schriften Zur Arabisch-Islamischen Geographie Aus Den Jahren 1842-1879. Ed. Fuat Sezgin. 2 vol. Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität.

P. 66.

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. 135.

Goldstein, Bernard. 1985. Theory and Observation in Ancient and Medieval Astronomy. London: Variorum Reprints.
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. 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.

Pp. 15-16.

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

Pp. 49, 109, 364.

Dold-Samplonius, Yvonne, and Heinrich Hermelink. 1973. “Al-Jayyānī”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 7:82-83. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Sabra, Abdelhamid. 1967. “The Authorship of the Liber De Crepusculis, an Eleventh-Century Work on Atmospheric Refraction”. Isis 58 (1): 77-85.
Hermelink, Heinrich. 1964. “Tabulae Jahen”. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 2 (2): 108-12.
Plooij, Edward. 1950. “Euclid’s Conception of Ratio and His Definition of Proportional Magnitudes As Criticized by Arabian Commentators”. Rotterdam: W. J. van Hengel.
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P. 77.

Suter, Heinrich. 1902. “Nachträge Und Berichtigungen”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen 14: 157-85.

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.

Pp. 96, 214 (no. 44).

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

Vol. 2, p. 480.

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Vol. 2, p. 324.