PERSON

Abū Aḥmad Yaḥyá ibn ʿAlī Yaḥyá ibn Abī Manṣūr al-Munajjim

Name (arabic)

أبو أحمد يحيى بن علي بن يحيى بن أبي منصور المنجّم

Name (translit)

Abū Aḥmad Yaḥyá ibn ʿAlī Yaḥyá ibn Abī Manṣūr al-Munajjim

Alias

Ibn al-Munajjim
Yaḥyá al-Munajjim
Yaḥyá ibn ʿAlī

Born

241H/856J

Flourished

Died

299H/912J

Born in

Lived in

Notes

Grandson of Yaḥyỳ ibn Abī Manṣūr, and known for his work on music theory.

Number in MAMS

121

ismi_id

95451

Authored Works

1 works:

MUSIC

Risālah fī al-mūsīqá , رسالة في الموسيقى

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Vol. 1, pp. 375-76.

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Pp. 71-72.

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. 111.

Farmer, Henry. 1934. “Yahya B. ʿAli”. In Encyclopaedia Of Islam, First Edition (1913-1936), 4:1150-51. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.

Pp. 143-44.