PERSON
Abū Ḥanīfah Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd ibn Wanand al-Dīnawarī
| Name (arabic) |
أبو حنيفة أحمد بن داوود بن ونند الدينوري
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| Name (translit) |
Abū Ḥanīfah Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd ibn Wanand al-Dīnawarī
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| Flourished |
183H/800J
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| Lived in |
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| Notes |
(From MAMS2): Famous linguist, historian, naturalist, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer; worked in Isfahan and Dinawar; made astronomical observations in Isfahan in 849-850. |
| Number in MAMS |
97
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| ismi_id |
98009
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Authored Works
9 works:Algebra
Kitāb al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah , كتاب الجبر والمقابلة
Kitāb nawādir al-jabr , كتاب نوادر الجبر
Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb
Kitāb al-takht fī ḥisāb al-hind , كتاب التخت في حساب الهند
Astronomical Tables/zījes
Al-Zīj (al-Dīnawarī) , الزيج
Astronomy: Practical
Kitāb al-kusūf , كتاب الكسوف
Kitāb al-qiblah wa-al-zawāl , كتاب القبلة و الزوال
Inheritance
Kitāb al-waṣāyah , كتاب الوصاية
Kitāb ḥisāb al-dawr , كتاب حساب الدور
Natural Philosophy/ṭabīʿiyyāt
Kitāb al-azminah wa-al-amkinah , كتاب الأزمنة و الأمكنة
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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. 46-47 (no. 97).
Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.
Vol. 1, p. 123.
Sezgin, Fuat. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 4, Alchimie-Chemie, Botanik-Agrikultur Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Pp. 338-43.
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. 81-82 (no. 60).
Sezgin, Fuat. 1982. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 8, Lexikographie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leipzig: E. J. Brill.
Pp. 158-70.
Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Pp. 158-59.
Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Pp. 262-63.
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Pp. 70-72.
Sayılı, Aydın. 1960. The Observatory in Islam and Its Place in the General History of the Observatory. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi (Turkish Historical Society).
P. 95.
Suter, Heinrich. 1902. “Nachträge Und Berichtigungen”. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen 14: 157-85.
P. 162.
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.
Pp. 31-32.
Leclerc, Lucien. 1876. Histoire De La médecine Arabe: Exposé Complet Des Traductions Du Grec; Les Sciences En Orient, Leur Transmission à l’Occident Par Les Traductions Latines. 2 vol. Paris: E. Leroux.
Pp. 298-300.
Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.
P. 78.
Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Vol. 1, p. 615.
Kâtip, Çelebi. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub Wa-Al-funūn. 2 vol. Istanbul: Maṭabiʻ Wikālat al-Maʿārif al-Jalīlah; Milli Eg‐itim Bakanlig‐i Yayinlari.
Vol. 1, p. 329; vol. 2, p. 105; vol. 3, pp. 63, 470, 558; vol. 5, pp. 54, 67, 103, 130, 162, 169, 308.