Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyỳ ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī

PERSON

Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī

Name (arabic)	أبو الوفاء محمد بن محمد بن يحيى بن إسماعيل بن العبّاس البوزجاني
Name (translit)	Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī
Alias	Būzjānī Abū al-Wafāʾ Būzjānī
Born	328H/940J
Died	386H/997J
Born in	Būzjān
Lived in	Baghdad
Died in	Baghdad
Student of	Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Zayd al-Kātib ibn Karnīb
Teacher of	Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿIrāq al-Jaʿdī
Number in MAMS	256
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Buzjani_BEA.htm
ismi_id	52681

Authored Works

17 works:

Algebra

Kitāb tafsīr kitāb al-Khwārizmī fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah , کتاب تفسير کتاب الخوارزمي في الجبر والمقابلة

Kitāb tafsīr kitāb Diyūfanṭus fī al-jabr , کتاب تفسير کتاب ديوفنطس في الجبر

Kitāb tafsīr kitāb Ibarkhus fī al-jabr , کتاب تفسير کتاب إبرخس في الجبر

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Kitāb fī mā yaḥtāju ilayhi al-kuttāb wa-al-ʿummāl wa-ghayruhum min ʿilm al-ḥisāb , كتاب فيما يحتاج إلیه الكُتّاب والعُمال وغیرهم من علم الحساب

Kitāb istikhrāj ḍilʿ al-mukaʿʿab wa-māl al-māl wa-mā yatarakkabu minhumā , کتاب إستخراج ضلع المکعّب ومال المال وما يترکّب منهما

Risālah fī jamʿ aḍlāʿ al-murabbaʿāt wa-al-mukaʿʿabāt wa-akhdh tafāḍulihā , رسالة في جمع أضلاع المربّعات والمکعّبات وأخذ تفاضلها

ِAl-Madkhal al-ḥifẓī ilá ṣināʿat al-arithmāṭīqā , المدخل الحفظي إلی صناعة الأرثماطيقا

Astronomy: General

Kitāb al-Majisṭī (Būzjānī) , كتاب المجسطي

Risālah fī iqāmat al-burhān ʿalá al-dāʾir min al-falak min qaws al-nahār wa-irtifāʿ niṣf wa-irtifāʿal-waqt , رسالة في إقامة البرهان علی الدائر من الفلك من قوس النهار وإرتفاع نصف وإرتفاع الوقت

Geometry: General

Jawāb ʿammā saʾalahu al-faqīh Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥārith fī misāḥat al-muthallathāt min ghayr istikhrāj al-ʿamūd wa-masqaṭ al-ḥajar , جواب عما سئله الفقيه أبو علي الحسن بن الحارث في مساحة المثلّثات من غير إستخراج العمود ومسقط الحجر

Kitāb fī mā yaḥtāju ilayhi al-ṣāniʿ min al-aʿmāl al-handasiyyah , کتاب في ما يحتاج إليه الصانع من الأعمال الهندسيّة

Kitāb tafsīr kitāb Uqlīdis , کتاب تفسير کتاب أقليدس

Masʾalah Arshimīdis fī misāḥat al-muthallath , مسئلة أرشميدس في مساحة المثلّث

Risālah fī al-nisab wa-al-taʿrīfāt , رسالة في النسب والتعريفات

MUSIC

Mukhtaṣar fī fann al-īqāʿ , مختصر في فن الإيقاع

Qānūn juzʾ al-taʾlīf li-Uqlīdis , قانون جزء التأليف لأقليدس

Number Theory

Risālah fī tarkīb ʿadad al-wafq fī al-murabbaʿāt , رسالة في تركيب عدد الوفق في المربّعات

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Pp. 96-98 (no. 256).

Sesiano, Jacques. 1998. “Le Traité D'abū ʾL‐Wafāʾ Sur Les Carrés Magiques”. Zeitschrift Für Geschichte Der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 12: 121-244.

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

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Debarnot, Marie-Thérèse, Roshdi Rashed, and Régis Morelon. 1996. “Trigonometry”. In Encyclopedia Of The History Of Arabic Science, 2:495-538. London: Routledge.

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Gupta, Radha. 1992. “Abū Al‐Wafāʾ And His Indian Rule About Regular Polygons”. Gaṇita Bhāratī 14: 57-61.

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Kennedy, Edward. 1984. “Applied Mathematics In The Tenth Century: Abu ʾL‐Wafāʾ Calculates The Distance Baghdad-Mecca”. Historia Mathematica 11: 193-206.

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Vol. 2, pp. 177-81; vol. 3, p. 363.

Kennedy, Edward, and Moustafa Mawaldi. 1979. “Abū Al‐Wafāʾ And The Heron Theorems”. Journal For The History Of Arabic Science 3: 19-30.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1979. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (Gas), Vol. 7, Astrologie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

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Saʿīdān, Ahmad. 1974. “The Arithmetic Of Abū ʾL‐Wafāʾ”. Isis 65: 367-374.

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