PERSON

Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khuzāʿī

Name (arabic)

منصور بن طلحة بن طاهر بن الحسین الخزاعي

Name (translit)

Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥah ibn Ṭāhir ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khuzāʿī

Alias

Manṣūr ibn Ṭalḥa

Died

239H/854J

Lived in

Notes

(From MAMS2): His astronomical observations are described in Bīrūnī.

Number in MAMS

45

ismi_id

105171

Authored Works

2 works:

Astronomy: General

Kitāb al-ibānah ʿan istidārat al-falak , كتاب الإبانة عن استدارة الفلك

Number Theory

Risālah fī al-ʿadad wa-al-maʿdūdāt , رسالة في العدد والمعدودات

References

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. 27 (no. 45).

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, 47 (no. 21.1).

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

P. 245.

Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1967. The Determination Of The Coordinates Of Positions For The Correction Of Distances Between Cities; A Translation From The Arabic Of Kitāb Taḥdīd Nihāyāt Al-Amākin Li-Taṣḥīḥ Masāfāt Al-Masākin. Tran. Jamil Ali. Beirut: The American University of Beirut.

Pp. 66-67, 175, 226.

Sayılı, Aydın. 1960. The Observatory In Islam And Its Place In The General History Of The Observatory. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi (Turkish Historical Society).

Pp. 99-100.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol.. Leipzig: Vogel.

P. 117.