Abū al-Ṭayyib Sanad ibn ʿAlī al-Yahūdī

PERSON

Abū al-Ṭayyib Sanad ibn ʿAlī al-Yahūdī

Name (arabic)	أبو الطيّب سند بن علي اليهودي
Name (translit)	Abū al-Ṭayyib Sanad ibn ʿAlī al-Yahūdī
Alias	Sanad ibn ʿAlī Sind ibn ʿAlī
Flourished	200H/815J
Lived in	Baghdad
Number in MAMS	48
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Sanad_ibn_Ali_BEA.htm
ismi_id	105453

Authored Works

8 works:

Algebra

Kitāb al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah , كتاب الجبر والمقابلة

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Kitāb al-ḥisāb al-hindī , كتاب الحساب الهندي

Astrology

Kitāb al-qawāṭiʿ , كتاب القواطع

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Zīj (Sanad b. ʿAlī) , زيج

Astronomy: General

Maqālah fī barāhīn ʿalá ṭarīq al-khulf fī anna al-shams aʿẓam min al-arḍ wa-al-qamar aṣghar minhā , مقالة في براهين على طريق الخلف في أنّ الشمس أعظم من الأرض والقمر أصغر منها

Geography: Practical

[Treatise on Calculation of the Circumference of the Earth] (Sanad b. ʿAlī)

Mathematics: Applied

Kitāb al-munfaṣilāt wa-al-mutawassiṭāt , كتاب المنفصلات والمتوسّطات

Mathematics: General

Kitāb al-jamʿ wa-al-tafrīq , كتاب الجمع والتفريق

References

Brentjes, Sonja. 2007. “Sanad Ibn ʿAlī: Abū Al-Ṭayyib Sanad Ibn ʿAlī Al-Yahūdī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 2:1011. New York: Springer-Verlag.

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. 28-29 (no. 48).

King, David. 2000. “Too Many Cooks . A New Account of the Earliest Muslim Geodetic Measurements”. Suhayl 1: 207-42.

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, p. 50 (no. 24).

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

Pp. 119-20.

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

P. 138.

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

Pp. 242-43.

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

P. 206.

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.

Pp. 13-14.

Suter, Heinrich. 1892. “Das Mathematiker-Verzeichniss Im Fihrist Des Ibn Abi Ja’qub an-Nadim”. Abhandlungen für Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 6.

Pp. 17, 59.

Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub waʾl-funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum a Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 3, p. 466.

Ibn Yūnus ʻAlī. 1804. Le Livre De La Grande Table hakémite. Extraits Du Ms. De Leyde, Par Ebn Iounis.. Trans. J.J. de Perceval. Paris: L’Imprimerie de la Républic.

Pp. 56, 66, 67, 94.

Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 1, p. 566.