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
Flourished
Died	462H/1070J
Born in	Rayy
Lived in	Ghazna Nasā Isfahan Rayy
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

8 works:

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

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

Astronomical Instruments

Risālah fī maʿrifat al-taqwīm wa-al-asṭurlāb , رسالة في معرفة التقويم والأسطرلاب

Astronomical Tables/zījes

al-Zīj al-Fākhir , الزيج الفاخر

Geometry: General

al-Bāligh fī sharḥ kitāb Uqlīdis , البالغ في شرح كتاب أقليدس

Maqālah fī ʿamal dāʾirah nisbatuhā ilá dāʾirah mafrūḍah ka-nisbah mafrūḍah , مقالة في عمل دائرة نسبتها إلى دائرة مفروضة كنسبة مفروضة

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

Tajrīd Uqlīdis , تجريد أقليدس

Mathematics: General

Kitāb al-ishbāʿ fī sharḥ al-shakl al-qaṭṭāʿ , كتاب الإشباع في شرح الشكل القطّاع

References

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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. 140-41 (no. 341).

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

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Sezgin, Fuat. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 3, Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

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Baghirova, Sevinj. 1987. Sochineniye " Tatimmat Ṣiwān Al-ḥikmah " Al-Bayhaki Kak Obrazets Srednevekovogo Ensiklopedicheskogo Spravochnika. Tashkent.

P. 74.

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. 45.

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. 259-62.

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

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

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

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al-Nasawī, Abū. 1973. Nasawī-nāma. Ed. Abū Qurbānī. Tehran.

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

Vol. 1, pp. 290-93.

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

Pp. 109-10.

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.

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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. 3, p. 564; vol. 5, p. 144; vol. 6, pp. 29, 308-9.

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Vol. 1, p. 719.