Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Marwān al-Saraḫsī

PERSON

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Marwān al-Sarakhsī

Name (arabic)	أبو العبّاس أحمد بن محمد بن مروان السرخسي
Name (translit)	Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Marwān al-Sarakhsī
Alias	Aḥmad al-Sarakhsī Aḥmad ibn al-Ṭayyib
Flourished
Died	285H/899J
Lived in	Baghdad Sarakhs
Student of	Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Kindī
Teacher of	Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥat al-Muʿtaḍid bi-āllāh
Number in MAMS	100
ismi_id	100358

Authored Works

10 works:

Algebra

Kitāb al-arithmāṭiqā fī al-aʿdād wa-al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah , كتاب الأرثماطقا في الأعداد والجبر والمقابلة

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Kitāb al-aʿshāsh wa-ṣināʿat al-ḥisbah al-kabīr , كتاب الأعشاش وصناعة الحسبة الكبير

Kitāb ʿushsh al-ṣināʿāt wa-al-ḥisbah al-ṣaghīr , كتاب عشّ الصناعات والحسبة الصغير

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Maqālah fī ikhtilāf al-zījāt , مقالة في إختلاف الزيجات

Astronomy: General

al-Madkhal ilá ṣināʿat al-nujūm , المدخل إلى صناعة النجوم

MUSIC

al-Madkhal ilá ʿilm al-mūsīqá , المدخل إلى علم الموسيقى

Kitāb al-mūsīqá al-kabīr maqālatān , كتاب الموسيقى الكبير مقالتان

Kitāb al-mūsīqá al-ṣaghīr , كتاب الموسيقى الصغير

Nuzhat al-mufakkir al-sāhir , نزهة المفكّر الساهر

Natural Philosophy/ṭabīʿiyyāt

Risālah fī anna al-juzʾ yatajazzaʾ ilá mā lā nihāyah lahu , رسالة في أنّ الجزء يتجزّأ إلى ما لا نهاية له

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Sezgin, Fuat. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 3, Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

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Sezgin, Fuat. 1984. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 9, Grammatik. Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

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Sezgin, Fuat. 1979. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 7, Astrologie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 137, 269.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 162-63.

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

P. 263.

Farmer, Henry. 1965. The Sources of Arabian Music: An Annotated Bibliography of Arabic Manuscripts Which Deal With the Theory, Practice, and History of Arabian Music from the Eighth to the Seventeenth Century. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

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Rosenthal, Franz. 1943. Aḥmad B. Aṭ-Tayyib As-Saraḫsî: A Scholar and littérateur of the Ninth Century. New Haven: American Oriental Society.

Lippert, Julius, and Jamāl Al-Qifṭī. 1903. “Taʾrīḫ Al-hukamāʾ”. Leipzig: Theodor Weicher.

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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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Barhebraeus,. 1783. Des Gregorius Abulfaradsch Kurze Geschichte Der Dynastien; Oder, Auszug Der Allgemeinen Welt-Geschichte Besonders Der Geschichte Der Chalifen Und Mogolen. Trans. Georg Bauer. 2 vol. Leipzig: A.G. Böhme.

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Kâtip, Çelebi. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub Wa-Al-funūn. 2 vol. Istanbul: Maṭabiʻ Wikālat al-Maʿārif al-Jalīlah; Milli Eg‐itim Bakanlig‐i Yayinlari.

Vol. 1, pp. 224, 502; vol. 2, p. 5; vol. 3, pp. 66, 385, 393, 413, 416, 438, 528, 640; vol. 4, pp. 415, 439, 447; vol. 5, pp. 33, 38, 46, 58, 67, 104, 111, 117-118, 120, 143, 161, 165-167, 169, 472, 475, 509; vol. 6, pp. 98, 334.