PERSON

Muḥyī al-Millah wa-al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Maghribī al-Andalusī

Name (arabic)

محيي الملّة والدين يحيى بن أبي الشكر المغربي الأندلسي

Name (translit)

Muḥyī al-Millah wa-al-Dīn Yaḥyá ibn Abī al-Shukr al-Maghribī al-Andalusī

Alias

محيى الملة والدين يحيى ابن ابي الشكر المغربي
Abī al-Shukr
Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Maghribī
al-Qurṭubī

Flourished

Died

1283 CE/ 0682 AH

Lived in

Number in MAMS

635

Biography URL

ismi_id

37929

Authored Works

23 works:

Astronomical Instruments

Kalām fī ayyaẗ al-kursī , كلام الأيّة الكرسي
Tasṭīḥ al-asṭurlāb , تسطيح الأسطرلاب

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Adwār al-anwār madỳ al-duhūr wa-al-akwār , أدوار الأنوار مدى الدهور والأكوار
Tāj al-azyāj wa-ġunyaẗ al-muḥtāj , تاج الأزياج وغنية المحتاج
ʿUmdaẗ al-ḥāsib wa-ġunyaẗ al-ṭālib , عمدة الحاسب وغنية الطالب

Astronomy: General

al-Madḫal al-mufīd wa-ġunyaẗ al-mustafīd fī al-ḥukm ʿalỳ al-mawālīd , المدخل المفيد وغنية المستفيد في الحكم على المواليد
Maqālaẗ fī al-ḥukm ʿalaỳ al-masāʾil al-mutaḫaṣṣaṣ bi-aḥwāl al-sāʾil , مقالة في الحكم على المسائل المتخصّص بأحوال السائل
Maqālaẗ fī istiḫrāj taʿdīl al-nahār wa-sāʿaẗ al-mašriq wa-al-dāʾir min al-falak bi-ṭarīq al-handasaẗ , مقالة في استخراج تعديل النهار وساعة المشرق والدائر من الفلك بطريق الهندسة
Risālaẗ fī kayfīyyaẗ al-ḥukm ʿalỳ taḥāwīl sinī al-ʿalām , رسالة في كيفيّة الحكم على تحاويل سني العالم
Risālaẗ Ḫātimaẗ fī al-aḥkām al-juzʾīyyaẗ , رسالة خاتمة في الأحكام الجزئيّة

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Ḫulāṣaẗ al-Majisṭī , خلاصة المجسطي
Muqaddimāt tataʿallaq bi-ḥarakāt al-kawākib , مقدّمات تتعلّق بحركات الكواكب

Geometry: General

Maqālaẗ fī šakl al-qaṭṭāʿ , مقالة في شكل القطّاع
Risālaẗ fī al-nisbaẗ al-muʾallafaẗ (Ibn Abī al-Šukr) , رسالة في النسبة المؤلفة
Tahḏīb maḫrūṭāt Abulūniyūs , تهذيب مخروطات أبلونيوس
Tahḏīb maqālaẗ Ṯawḏūsyūs fī al-ukar (Ibn Abī al-Šukr) , تهذيب مقالة ثوذوسيوس في الأكر
Taḥrīr al-Uṣūl al-handasaẗ li-Uqlīdis (Ibn Abī al-Šukr) , تحرير أصول الهندسة لأقليدس

Mathematics: General

Risālaẗ fī mā tafarraʿa ʿan al-šakl al-qaṭṭāʿ min al-nisab al-muʾallafaẗ ʿalỳ sabīl al-ījāz , رسالة فيما تفرّع عن الشكل القطّاع من النسب المألّفة على سبيل الإيجاز

Spherics

al-Kura al-mutaḥarrika (Maghribī) , الكرة المتحرّكة
Iṣlāḥ kitāb Mānālāʾūs fī al-aškāl al-kuriyyaẗ (Ibn Abī al-Šukr) , إصلاح كتاب مانالاؤوس في الأشكال الكريّة

Trigonometry

Risālaẗ fī kayfīyaẗ istikhrāj al-juyūb al-wāqiʿaẗ fī al-dāʾiraẗ , رسالة في كيفية استخراج الجيوب الواقعة في الدائرة

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