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PERSON

Banū Mūsá

Name (arabic)

بنو موسى
Name (translit)

Banū Mūsá
Alias

Banū Mūsā
Flourished

183H/800J
Lived in

Samarra
Baghdad
Student of

Abū ʿAlī Yaḥyá ibn Abī Manṣūr al-Munajjim
Teacher of

Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ
Notes

The three sons of Mūsá ibn Shākir, generally known under the single name of the Banū Mūsá. See also the three sons: Muḥammad, Aḥmad, and Ḥasan.
Number in MAMS

74
Biography URL

http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Banu_Musa_BEA.htm
ismi_id

102917

Authored Works

3 works:

Geometry: General

Islāḥ Kitāb al-Makhrūṭāt li-Abulūniyūs , إصلاح كتاب المخروطات لأبلونيوس
Kitāb Abūlūnyūs fī al-makhrūṭāt , كتاب أبولونيوس في المخروطات
Kitāb maʿrifah masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kuriyyah , كتاب معرفة مساحة الأشكال البسيطة والكريّة

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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. 34-36 (no. 74).

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Vol. 2, pp. 61-64 (no. 43).

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