PERSON
Ibn al-Qunfudh: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Khaṭīb al-Qusanṭīnī
| Name (arabic) |
ابن القنفذ: أبو العبّاس أحمد بن الحسن بن علي بن الخطيب القسنطيني
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Ibn al-Qunfudh: Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Khaṭīb al-Qusanṭīnī
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Aḥmad ibn al-Qunfudh al-Quṣtanṭīnī
Ibn al-Qunfudh
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| Born |
1339 CE/ 0740 AH
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| Flourished |
135x CE/ 075x AH
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| Died |
1407 CE/ 0810 AH
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| Notes |
Djebbar (EI3) states that Ibn al-Qunfudh "wrote seven texts on astronomy that dealt with the science of timekeeping, making it possible to determine prayer times, the movements of the seven visible planets, and the planetary equations." |
| Number in MAMS |
780
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| ismi_id |
9820
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Authored Works
9 works:Algebra
Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb
al-Talkhīṣ fī Sharḥ al-Talkhīṣ , التلخيص في شرح التلخيص
Ḥaṭṭ al-niqāb ʿan wujūh aʿmāl al-ḥisāb , حطّ النقاب عن وجوه أعمال الحساب
Sharḥ Urjūza fī al-ḥisāb li-ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Rijāl al-Qayrawānī , شرح أرجوزة في الحساب لعلي بن أبي الرجال القيرواني
Astrology
Astronomy: General
Kitāb tas'hīl al-maṭālib fī taʿdīl al-kawākib , كتاب تسهيل المطالب في تعديل الكواكب
Inheritance
Bughyat al-fāriḍ min al-ḥisāb wa-al-farāʾiḍ , بغية الفارض من الحساب والفرائض
Maʿūnat al-rāʾiḍ fī mabādiʾ al-farāʾiḍ , معونة الرائض في مبادئ الفرائض
References
Djebbar, Ahmed. 2021. “Ibn Qunfudh”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam Three Online. Leiden: Brill.
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. 262 (no. 780).
Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.
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