Abū al-Ṣaqr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUṯmān ibn ʿAlī al-Qabīṣī

PERSON

Abū al-Ṣaqr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Qabīṣī

Name (arabic)	أبو الصقر عبد العزيز بن عثمان بن علي القبيصي
Name (translit)	Abū al-Ṣaqr ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAlī al-Qabīṣī
Alias	Alcabitius Abū al-Ṣaqr al-Qabīṣī Alchabitius
Flourished	286H/900J
Student of	ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-ʿImrānī
Number in MAMS	205
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Qabisi_BEA.htm
ismi_id	57661

Authored Works

10 works:

Astrology

Al-Madkhal ilá ṣināʿah aḥkām al-nujūm , المدخل إلی صناعة أحكام النجوم

Fī qirānāt al-kawākib fī al-burūj , في قرانات الكواكب في البروج

Masāʾil yumtaḥanu bi-hā al-munajjimūn , مسائل يمتحن بها المنجمون

Risālah fī imtiḥān al-munajjimīn , رسالة في إمتحان المنجمين

Astronomical Tables/zījes

ʿIlal al-zījāt , علل الزيجات

Astronomy: General

Risālah fī al-abʿād wa-al-ajrām (Qabīṣī) , رسالة في الأبعاد والأجرام

[Treatise on Determining the Sizes and Distances of Planets]

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam

Sharḥ Kitāb al-fuṣūl lil-Farghānī (Qabīṣī) , شرح كتاب الفصول للفرغاني

Shukūk al-Majisṭī (Qabīṣī) , شكوك المجسطي

Number Theory

Risālah fī anwāʾ al-aʿdād wa-ṭarāʾif min al-aʿmāl mimmā jamaʿahu min mutaqaddimī ahl al-ʾilm bi-hādhihī al-ṣināʿah , رسالة في أنواع الأعداد وطرائف من الأعمال مما جمعه من متقدمي أهل العلم بهذه الصناعة

References

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‐Qabīsī, Al. 2004. Al‐Qabīsī’s The Introduction to Astrology. Eds. Charles Burnett, Keiji Yamamoto, and Michio Yano. London: Warburg Institute.

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. 85 (no. 205).

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Al‐Ṣafadī, Ṣalāḥ. 1991. Al-Wāfī Bi-ʾl-wafayāt. Stuttgart: Orient‐Institut der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft.

Vol. 2, p. 375.

King, David, George Saliba, and Jacques Sesiano. 1987. “A Treatise by al‐Qabīsī (Alchabitius) on Arithmetical Series”. In From Deferent to Equant: A Volume of Studies in the History of Science in the Ancient and Medieval Near East in Honor of E. S. Kennedy, 483-500. New York: New York Academy of Sciences.

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. 40.

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. 155-56 (no. 132).

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

Pp. 170-71.

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

Pp. 208-10.

Gillispie, Charles, and David Pingree. 1975. “Al‐Qabīsī”. In Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 11:226. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

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

Pp. 311-12.

al-Nadīm Ibn. 1970. The Fihrist of Muḥammad Ibn Isḥāq Ibn Al-Nadīm: A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture. Ed. Bayard Dodge. 2 vol. New York: Columbia University Press.

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P. 341.

Al-Bayhaqī, ʿAlī. 1935. Kitāb Tatimmat ṣiwān Al-ḥikmah. Ed. Mohammad Shafīʿ. Lahore: L. Ishwar Das, Registrar, University of the Panjab.

Pp. 158-59.

Suter, Heinrich. 1902. “Nachträge Und Berichtigungen”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen 14: 157-85.

Pp. 165-66.

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. 60-61.

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

P. 16.

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

P. 265.

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. 5, pp. 473, 476.

Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 1, p. 669.

Khallikān, Ibn, and William Slane. Biographical Dictionary. Library/m/aleph%7C002253723. 4 vol. Paris: Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 1, p. 365.

Allāh, al-Ḥamawī. Muʿjam Al-buldān. 5 vol. Beirut: Dār Sādir; Dār Bayrūt.

Vol. 4, pp. 308-9.