Sinān ibn al-Fatḥ al-Ḥarrānī

PERSON

Sinān ibn al-Fatḥ al-Ḥarrānī

Name (arabic)	سنان بن الفتح الحرّاني
Name (translit)	Sinān ibn al-Fatḥ al-Ḥarrānī
Alias	Sinān ibn al-Fatḥ
Flourished	286H/900J
Born in	Harran
Lived in	Harran
Number in MAMS	231
ismi_id	56642

Authored Works

9 works:

Algebra

Kitāb sharḥ al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah lil-Khwārizmī , كتاب شرح الجبر والمقابلة للخوارزمي

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Kitāb al-jamʿ wa-al-tafrīq , كتاب الجمع والتفريق

Kitāb al-kaʿb wa-al-māl wa-al-aʿdād al-mutanāsibah , كتاب الکعب والمال والأعداد المتناسبة

Kitāb ḥisāb al-mukaʿʿabāt , كتاب حساب المكعّبات

Sharḥ al-jamʿ wa-al-tafrīq , شرح الجمع والتفريق

Geometry: General

al-Qaws , القوس

Inheritance

Kitāb al-waṣāyā (Sinān ibn al-Fatḥ) , كتاب الوصايا

Mathematics: Applied

Nawādir al-misāḥah , نوادر المساحة

Mathematics: General

Qawl fī masāḥāt al-manaẓiriyyah , قول في مساحات المناظريّة

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.

Pp. 91-92 (no. 231).

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. 39.

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, p. 168.

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

P. 406.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 207.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 301.

Ṭūqān Qadrī. 1963. Turāth Al-ʿArab Al-ʿilmī Fī Al-riyāḍīyāt Wa-Al-Falak. Cairo: Dār al-Qalam.

Pp. 178-81.

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

P. 190.

Suter, Heinrich. 1900. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke.. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen, Vol. 10. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.

Pp. 66-67.

Suter, Heinrich. 1892. “Das Mathematiker-Verzeichniss Im Fihrist Des Ibn Abi Ja’qub an-Nadim”. Abhandlungen für Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 6.

Pp. 37, 70-71.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.

P. 281.