PERSON
Abū Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabash
| Name (arabic) |
أبو جعفر بن أحمد بن عبد الله بن حبش
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| Name (translit) |
Abū Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabash
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| Alias |
Ibn Ḥabash
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| Flourished |
230H/844J
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| Misattribution |
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| Misidentification |
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| Notes |
Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib's treatise on the melon-shaped astrolabe (Paris 2457) has been mis-attributed to Abū Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabash (Rosenfeld/Ihsanoglu, p. 43). Correct identification in Kennedy, Edward Stewart, Paul Kunitzsch, and Richard Lorch. The Melon-Shaped Astrolabe In Arabic Astronomy. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999. |
| Number in MAMS |
86
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| ismi_id |
162694
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References
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P. 43 (no. 86).
Kennedy, Edward, Paul Kunitzsch, and Richard Lorch. 1999. The Melon-Shaped Astrolabe in Arabic Astronomy. Stuttgart: Steiner.
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, pp. 77-78 (no. 51).
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P. 188.
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Suter, Heinrich. 1892. “Das Mathematiker-Verzeichniss Im Fihrist Des Ibn Abi Ja’qub an-Nadim”. Zeitschrift für Mathematik Und Physik 37 Supplement.
Pp. 30, 64.
Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.
P. 288.