PERSON

Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Karajī

Name (arabic)

فخر الدين أبو بكر محمد بن الحسن الكرجي

Name (translit)

Fakhr al-Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Karajī

Alias

Karajī
Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Karajī
محمد بن الحسن الكرخي
Al-Karkhī

Died

410H/1020J

Born in

Lived in

Number in MAMS

309

ismi_id

76981

Authored Works

19 works:

Algebra

Al-Fakhrī fī ṣināʿat al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah , الفخري في صناعة الجبر والمقابلة
ʿIlal ḥisāb al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah , علل حساب الجبر والمقابلة

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

al-Badīʿ fī al-ḥisāb , البديع في الحساب
al-Kāfī fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb , الكافي في علم الحساب
Al-Kitāb al-muḥīṭ fī al-ḥisāb , الكتاب المحيط في الحساب
Al-Masāʾil wa-al-ajwibah fī al-ḥisāb , المسائل والأجوبة في الحساب
Kitāb fī ḥisāb al-Hind , كتاب في حساب الهند
Mukhtaṣar fī al-ḥisāb wa-al-misāḥah , مختصر في الحساب والمساحة
Ṣināʿat al-ḥisāb , صناعة الحساب

Astronomy: General

Al-Madkhal fī ʿilm al-nujūm (al-Karajī) , المدخل في علم النجوم

Mathematics: Applied

Al-Kitāb al-muqniʿ fī al-misāḥah (al-Karajī) , الكتاب المقنع في المساحة

Mathematics: General

Kitāb al-ajdhār , كتاب الأجذار
Kitāb al-dawr wa-al-waṣāyā , كتاب الدور والوصايا
Kitāb fī al-istiqrāʿ , كتاب في الإستقراع
Kitāb nawādir al-ashkāl , كتاب نوادر الأشكال
Risālah fī al-khaṭāʾayn , رسالة في الخطائين

TECHNOLOGY

Kitāb inbāṭ al-miyāh al-khafiyah , كتاب إنباط المياه الخفية
Kitāb ʿuqūd al-abniyah , كتاب عقود الأبنية

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Pp. 119-20 (no. 309).

Sesiano, Jacques. 1997. “Al-Karaji”. In Encyclopaedia Of The History Of Science, Technology, And Medicine In Non-Western Cultures, 475-476.
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Vol. 1, p. 247; suppl. 1, pp. 389-90.

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. 45.

Berggren, J.Lennart. 1986. Episodes In The Mathematics Of Medieval Islam. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Pp. 112-13.

Rashed, Roshdi. 1984. Entre Arithmétique Et Algèbre: Recherches Sur L'histoire Des Mathématiques Arabes. Paris: Société d'édition Les Belles lettres.

Pp. 31-42.

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. 219-23; vol. 3, p. 364.

Rahman, Abdur, M Alvi, Shabbir Ghori, and Samba Murthy. 1982. Science And Technology In Medieval India : A Bibliography Of Source Materials In Sanskrit, Arabic, And Persian. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy.

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ʿAbbās, Ihsān. 1977. Ibn Ḫallikān: Wafayāẗ Al-Aʿyān Wa-Anbāʾ Abnāʾ Al-Zamān. 8 vol.. Beirut.
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Vernet, Juan. 1976. “Al-Karadji”. In Encyclopaedia Of Islam, New Edition, 2nd ed., 4:600. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
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Vernet, Juan, and A. Català. 1970. “Un Ingeniero Arabe Del Siglo Xi: Al-Karayi”. Al-Andalus 35 (1): 69-91.
Ṭūqān, Qadrī. 1963. Turāth Al-ʿArab Al-ʿIlmī Fī Al-Riyāḍīyāt Wa-Al-Falak. Cairo: Dār al-Qalam.

Pp. 282-89.

Anbouba, Adel. 1959. Al-Karajī. Al-Dirāsāt Al-Adabiyya. Beirut.
Kutubī, Muḥammad. 1951. Fawāt Al-Wafayāt. al-Qāhirah: Maktabat al-Nahḍah al-Miṣrīyah.

Vol. 3, p. 279.

Vida, Giorgio. 1934. “Appunti E Quesiti Di Storia Litteraria Araba "Due Nuove Opera Della Matematica Al-Karaji (Al-Karkhi)”. Rivista Degli Studi Orientali 14 (3): 241-264.
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al-Daffaʾ, ʿAli. “Ai-Karkhī, Mathematician”. Arabian Journal Of Science And Engineering 2 (2): 131-132.
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