PERSON

Abū al-Ḥasan Musāfir ibn al-Ḥasan al-Muqawwī

Name (arabic)

أبو الحسن مسافر بن الحسن المقوّي

Name (translit)

Abū al-Ḥasan Musāfir ibn al-Ḥasan al-Muqawwī

Alias

Musāfir al-Muqawwī

Flourished

286H/900J

Dedicatee of

Notes

(From MAMS2): Al-Bīrūnī (no. 348) dedicated to Abū al-Ḥasan Musāfir ibn al-Ḥasan al-Muqawwī those works: Fī anna raʿy al-ʿArab fī marātib al-ʿadad aṣwab min raʾy al-Hind fīhā, Jamʿ al-ṭuruq al-sāʾirah fī maʿrifah awtār al-dāʾirah, Kitāb fī ifrād al-maqāl fī amr al-aẓlāl, and Al-Jawābāt ʿan al-masāʾil al-ʿasharah al-kashmīriyyah.

Number in MAMS

347

ismi_id

70724

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. 143 (no. 347).

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. 264.