Abū Kāmil Šujāʿ ibn Aslam ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāsib al-Miṣrī

PERSON

Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāsib al-Miṣrī

Name (arabic)	أبو كامل شجاع بن أسلم بن محمد الحاسب المصري
Name (translit)	Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥāsib al-Miṣrī
Alias	Abū Kāmil Auoquamel Abū Kāmil al-Miṣrī al-Ḥāsib al-Miṣrī
Born	235H/850J
Flourished
Died	317H/930J
Lived in	Cairo
Number in MAMS	124
ismi_id	95658

Authored Works

12 works:

Algebra

al-Kitāb al-shāmil , الكتاب الشامل

Kitāb fī al-jabr , كتاب في الجبر

Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb

Ṭarāʾif al-ḥisāb , طرائف الحساب

Geometry: General

Misāḥat al-mukhammas wa-al-muʿashshar , مساحة المخمّس والمعشّر

Inheritance

Al-Waṣāyah bi-al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah , الوصاية بالجبر والمقابلة

Al-Waṣāyah bi-al-judhūr , الوصاية بالجذور

Mathematics: Applied

Kitāb al-misāḥah wa-al-handasah , كتاب المساحة والهندسة

Miṣāḥat al-araḍī , مساحة الأرضي

Mathematics: General

al-Kitāb al-kāfī , الكتاب الكافي

Kitāb al-khaṭāʾayn , كتاب الخطائين

Kitāb al-masāʾil allatī hiya ghayr maḥdūdah , كتاب المسائل التي هي غير محدودة

Kitāb fī al-jamʿ wa-al-tafrīq , كتاب في الجمع والتفريق

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