Abū al-Ṣalt Umayyaẗ ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī

PERSON

Abū al-Ṣalt Umayyah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī

Name (arabic)	أبو الصلت أميّة بن عبد العزيز بن أبي الصلت الداني الأندلسي
Name (translit)	Abū al-Ṣalt Umayyah ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī
Alias	Abū al-Ṣalt Abū al-Ṣalt Amīr ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī Umayyaẗ ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Albuzale
Born	460H/1068J
Flourished
Died	529H/1134J
Born in	Denia
Lived in	Seville Mehdia Cairo Denia
Died in	Mehdia
Number in MAMS	431
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Abu_al-Salt_BEA.htm
ismi_id	35456

Authored Works

6 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb , رسالة في العمل بالأسطرلاب

Ṣifah ʿamal ṣafīḥah jāmiʿah taqawwama bi‐hā jamīʿ al‐kawākib al‐sabʿah , صفة عمل صفيحة جامعة تقوّم بها جميع الکواکب السبعة

Geometry: General

Kitāb al-handasah , کتاب الهندسة

Wajīz fī al-handasah , وجيز في الهندسة

MATHEMATICS

[On various meanings of the word “nuqṭah”]

MUSIC

Risālah fī al-mūsīqá , رسالة في الموسيقى

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P. 173 (no. 431).

Comes, Mercè. 2002. “Ibn Abī L-Ṣalt Al-Dānī, Umayya”. Enciclopedia De Al-Andalus. Diccionario De Autores Y Obras andalusíes 1 (204): 373-80.

Comes, Mercè. 2000. “Umayya B. ʿAbd Al-ʿAzīz, Abu ʾl-Ṣalt Al-Dānī Al-Ishbīlī”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2ndnd ed., 10:836-37. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

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