Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿIrāq al-Jaʿdī

PERSON

Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿIrāq al-Jaʿdī

Name (arabic)	أبو نصر منصور بن علي بن عراق الجعدي
Name (translit)	Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿIrāq al-Jaʿdī
Alias	Ibn ʿIrāq الامير ابو نصر منصور بن على بن عراق
Born	338H/950J
Died	427H/1036J
Born in	Gīlān (Iran)
Lived in	Gīlān (Iran) Ghazna Baghdad
Died in	Ghazna
Student of	Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī
Teacher of	Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī
Notes	(From MAMS2): He was the teacher of al-Bīrūnī.
Number in MAMS	299
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Ibn_Iraq_BEA.htm
ismi_id	78877

Authored Works

2 works:

Spherics

Iṣlāḥ kitāb Mānālāʾūs fī al-kuriyyāt , إصلاح كتاب مانالائوس في الكريّات

Maqālah fī iṣlāḥ shakl min kitāb Mānālāʾūs [Menelaus] fī al-kuriyyāt , مقالة في إصلاح شكل من كتاب مانالائوس في الكريّات

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