Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Hayṯam al-Baṣrī al-Miṣrī

PERSON

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham al-Baṣrī al-Miṣrī

Name (arabic)	أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم البصري المصري
Name (translit)	Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham al-Baṣrī al-Miṣrī
Alias	Abū ʿAlī Alhazen Ibn al-Haytham Muḥammad ibn al-Haytham Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham al-Baṣrī
Born	0965 CE/ 0353 AH
Flourished
Died	1039 CE/ 0430 AH
Born in	Baṣra
Lived in	Baghdad Cairo Baṣra
Teacher of	Isḥāq ibn Yūnis Abū al-Wafāʾ al-Mubashshir ibn Fātik al-Qāʿid al-Āmirī
Role	Physician
Number in MAMS	327, 328
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_al-Haytham_BEA.htm
ismi_id	74095

Authored Works

128 works:

Talḫīṣ maqālaẗ Manalāwūs fī taʿarruf al-jawāhir al-muḫtalifaẗ , تلخيص مقالة منلاووس في تعرّف الجواهر المختلفة

Algebra

Kitāb fī taḥlīl al-masāʾil al-ʿadadiyyaẗ bi-jihaẗ al-jabr wa-al-muqābalaẗ mubarhanan , كتاب في تحليل المسائل العدديّة بجهة الجبر والمقابلة مبرهناً

Taʿlīq ʿallaqahu Isḥāq ibn Yūnis al-Mutaṭabbib bi-Miṣr ʿan Ibn al-Hayṯam fī kitāb Diyufanṭus fī masāʾil al-jabr , تعليق علّقه إسحاق بن يونس المتطبّب بمصر عن بن الهيثم في كتاب ديفنطس في مسائل الجبر

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Al-Kitāb al-jāmiʿ fī uṣūl al-ḥisāb , الكتاب الجامع في أصول الحساب

Ḥisāb al-muʿāmalāt , حساب المعاملات

Kitāb al-mūʿāmalāt fī al-ḥisāb , كتاب المعاملات في الحساب

Maqālaẗ fī al-ḥisāb al-ḫataʾayn , مقالة في الحساب الخطأين

Maqālaẗ fī al-ḥisāb al-hindī , مقالة في الحساب الهندي

Maqālaẗ fī šarḥ al-Ariṯmāṭīqā ʿalỳ ṭarīq al-taʿlīq , مقالة في شرح الأرثماطيقا علی طريق التعليق

Masāʾil al-talāqī , مسائل التلاقي

Qawl fī masʾalaẗ ḥisābiyyaẗ , قول في مسألة حسابيّة

ASTRAL SCIENCES

Qawl fī al-kawākib al-ḥādiṯaẗ fī al-jaww , قول في الكواكب الحادثة في الجوّ

Astronomical Instruments

al-Ruḫāmaẗ al-ufuqiyyaẗ , الرخامة الأفقيّة

Kitāb fī ālaẗ al-ẓill , كتاب في آلة الظلّ

Astronomy: General

Fī aḍwāʾ al-kawākib , في أضواء الكواكب

Fī ḥarakaẗ al-qamar , في حركة القمر

Fī istiḫrāj ḫaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār bi-ẓill wāḥid , في إستخراج خطّ نصف النهار بظل واحد

Fī taṣḥīḥ al-aʿmāl al-nujūmiyyaẗ , في تصحيح الأعمال النجوميّة

Ḥall šukūk fī kitāb al-Majisṭī yašukku fīhā baʿḍ ahl al-ʿilm , حلّ شكوك في كتاب المجسطي يشكّ فيها بعض أهل العلم

Jawāb ʿan suʾāl sāʾil ʿan al-majarraẗ hal hiya fī al-hawāʾ aw fī jism al-samāʾ , جواب عن سؤال سائل عن المجرّة هل هي في الهواء او في جسم السماء

Kayfiyyaẗ al-arṣād , كيفيّة الأرصاد

Mā yaʿriḍ min al-iḫtilāf fī irtifāʿāt al-kawākib , ما يعرض من الإختلاف في إرتفاعات الكواكب

Maqālaẗ fī al-majarraẗ , مقالة في المجرّة

Maqālaẗ fī al-samt , مقالة في السمت

Maqālaẗ fī al-tanbīh ʿalỳ mawāḍiʿ al-ġalaṭ fī kayfiyyaẗ al-raṣad , مقالة في التنبيه على مواضع الغلط في كيفيّة الرصد

Maqālaẗ fī anna mā yurỳ min al-samāʾ huwa akṯar min niṣfihā , مقالة في أنّ ما يرى من السماء هو اكثر من نصفها

Maqālaẗ fī ḥarakaẗ al-iltifāf , مقالة في حركة الالتفاف

Maqālaẗ fī hayʾaẗ ḥarakaẗ kulli wāḥid min al-kawākib al-sabʿaẗ , مقالة في هيئة حركة كل واحد من الكواكب السبعة

Maqālaẗ fī istiḫrāj ḫaṭṭ niṣf al-nahār ʿalỳ ġāyaẗ al-taḥqīq , مقالة في إستخراج خطّ نصف النهار على غاية التحقيق

Maqālaẗ fī māhiyaẗ al-āṯār allatī taẓharu fī wajh al-qamar , مقالة في ماهية الآثار التي تظهر في وجه القمر

Manuscript Witnesses copied by this person

1 witnesses:

Islāḥ Kitāb al-Maḫrūṭāt li-Abulūniyūs_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_2762

References

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Provides Ṭūsī's summary of Ibn al‐Haytham's treatise on iltifāf.

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.

Pp. 130-1 (no. 327); pp. 131-8 (no. 328).

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A thorough reexamination of the writings attributed to Ibn al‐Haytham.

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Arabic text, English translation, introduction and notes.

Kennedy, Edward. 1989. “Ibn Al-Haytham’s Determination of the Meridian from One Solar Altitude”. Zeitschrift Für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 5: 141-44.

Supplies a proof for Ibn al‐Haytham's method; Arabic texts of two treatises on determining the meridian line by Ibn al‐Haytham were edited by Fuat Sezgin in Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch‐Islamischen Wissenschaften 3 (1986): 7-43 [Arabic numeration].

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Sabra, Abdelhamid. 1979. “Ibn Al-Haytham’s Treatise: Solution of Difficulties Concerning the Movement of Iltifāf”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 3: 388-422.

Arabic text with English synopsis.

Saud, Mohammad. 1979. “The Role of Hypothesis in Ibn Al-Haytham’s Scientific Investigation”. In International Symposium for the History of Arabic Sciences, 2:127-28.

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Arabic text with English synopsis.