ISMI Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

PERSON

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Hishām al-Sabtī al-Lakhmī

Name (arabic)

أبو عبد الله محمد بن أحمد بن حشام السبتي اللخمي
Name (translit)

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Hishām al-Sabtī al-Lakhmī
Alias

Ibn Hishām
Muḥammad al-Sabtī al-Lakhmī
Flourished

Died

569H/1174J
Lived in

Ceuta
Number in MAMS

483
ismi_id

36621

Authored Works

4 works:

Astronomy: General

[Commentary on Poem of Ibn al-Haytham on the Entry of the Sun into the Lunar Stations]

Astronomy: Practical

Sharḥ qaṣīdah Abī ʿAlī ibn al-Haytham al-Baghdādī , شرح قصيدة أبي علي بن الهيثم البغدادي

Mathematics: Applied

Maqālah fī misāḥat al-muthallath min jihah aḍlāʿihi (Muḥammad al-Sabtī al-Lakhmī) , مقالة في مساحة المثلّث من جهة أضلاعه
Waṣf tamwīh Abī al-Jūd Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Layth fī amr mā qaddamahu min al-muqaddimatayn li-ʿamal al-musabbaʿ , وصف تمويه أبي الجود محمد بن أبي الليث في أمر ما قدّمه من المقدّمتين لعمل المسبّع

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. 184 (no. 483).

Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. 1, p. 375; suppl. 1, p. 854; suppl. 2, p. 1022.

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 136.

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. 342-43.

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. 2, p. 628; vol. 4, pp. 439, 445, 550; vol. 5, pp. 100, 308, 471.