Ibn al-Hāʾim (d. 815/1412): Šihāb al-Dīn ibn al-Hāʾim

PERSON

Ibn al-Hāʾim (d. 815/1412): Shihāb al-Dīn ibn al-Hāʾim

Name (arabic)	شهاب الدين بن الهائم
Name (translit)	Shihāb al-Dīn ibn al-Hāʾim
Alias	Ibn al-Hāʾim al-Faraḍī ابن الهائم شهاب الدين أحمد بن محمد الشهير بالهائم الشِخ الإمام العالم العلّامة شهاب الدين أحمد المعروف بابن الهايم Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Hāʾim al-Miṣrī Aḥmad ibn al-Hāʾim al-Miṣrī شهاب الدين ابو العباس احمد بن محمد بن عماد بن الهائم الفرضي Ibn al-Hāʾim Šihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿImād ibn al-Hāʾim al-Faraḍī
Flourished
Died	815H/1412J
Born in	Cairo
Lived in	Egypt Cairo Jerusalem
Died in	Jerusalem
Notes	Ibn al-Hāʾim taught mathematics at the Ṣalāhiyya madrasa in Jerusalem.
Number in MAMS	783
ismi_id	9476

Authored Works

7 works:

Algebra

al-Mubdiʿ fī Sharḥ al-muqniʿ (Ibn al-Hāʾim [d. 815/1412]) , المبدع في شرح المقنع

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

al-Ḥāwi fī al-ḥisāb (Ibn al-Hāʾim [d. 815/1412]) , الحاوي في الحساب

al-Wasīlah fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb (Ibn al-Hāʾim [d. 815/1412]) , الوسيلة في علم الحساب

Kitāb al-maʿūna fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb al-hawāʾī , كتاب المعونة في علم الحساب الهوائى

Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʿilm al-ghubār (Ibn al-Hāʾim [d. 815/1412]) , نزهة النظار في علم الغبار

Mathematics: General

al-Muqnīʿ fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābala (Ibn al-Hāʾim [d. 815/1412]) , المقنع في الجبر والمقابلة

Ḥaqāʾiq al-daqāʾiq ʿalá daqāʾiq al-ḥaqāʾiq , حقائق الدقائق على دقائق الحقائق

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.

Pp. 263-64 (no. 783).

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin, Ramazan Şeşen, and Cevat İzgi, eds. 1999. Osmanlı Matematik literatürü Tarihi = History of Mathematical Literature During the Ottoman Period. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

This work contains various commentaries on ibn al-Hāʾim's works.

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

2:153-5; Suppl., 2:154-5.

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

Pp. 68-70 (C58).

Suter, Heinrich. 1986. Beiträge Zur Geschichte Der Mathematik Und Astronomie Im Islam: Nachdruck Seiner Schriften Aus Den Jahren 1892-1922. Ed. Fuat Sezgin. 2 vol. Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität.

1:1-314.

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, 472-474.

Rahman, Abdur, M Alvi, Shabbir Ghori, and Samba Murthy. 1982. Science and Technology in Medieval India : A Bibliography of Source Materials in Sanskrit, Arabic, and Persian. New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy.

Pp. 421-422.

Suter, Heinrich. 1981. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke. Amsterdam: APA; Oriental Press.

Pp. 171-72.

Tuqan, Qadri. 1941. Turath Al-ʿarab Al-ʿilmi fi’l-Riyadiyyat wa’l-Falak, Yabhath Fi Athar Al-ʿarab Fi Taqddum Al-Riyadiyyat Wa Al-Falak Wa Siyar aʿlam Riyadiyyihim Wa Kubar Falakiyyihim. Cairo: Al-Muqtataf.

Pp. 439-41. Reprint, 1367 H. (1948); 1382 H. (1963).

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

P. 178.

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

Vol. 3, pp. 1527-28.