Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Nasawī

PERSON

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Nasawī

Name (arabic)	أبو الحسن علي بن أحمد النسوي
Name (translit)	Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Nasawī
Alias	ʿAlī al-Nasawī Abilhasan Hali ben Ahmad Nasuensis Abū al-Ḥasan al-Nasawī
Born	359H/970J
Died	462H/1070J
Born in	Rayy
Lived in	Rayy Ghazna Nasā Isfahan
Student of	Kiyā Abū al-Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al-Jīlī
Number in MAMS	341
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Nasawi_BEA.htm
ismi_id	72419

Authored Works

3 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

al-Muqniʿ fī al-ḥisāb al-hindī , المقنع في الحساب الهندي

Geometry: General

Sharḥ kitāb al-Maʾkhūdhāt li-Arshimīdis , شرح كتاب المأخوذات لأرشميدس

Tajrīd Uqlīdis , تجريد أقليدس

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