PERSON

Abū Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabash

Name (arabic)

أبو جعفر بن أحمد بن عبد الله بن حبش

Name (translit)

Abū Jaʿfar ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥabash

Alias

Ibn Ḥabash

Flourished

Misattribution

Misidentification

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

ismi_id

162694

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. 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).

Suter, Heinrich. 1981. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke. Amsterdam: APA; Oriental Press.
Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (Gas), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 188.

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