Abū al-ʿAnbas Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaymarī

PERSON

Abū al-ʿAnbas Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaymarī

Name (arabic)	أبو العنبس محمّد بن إسحاق بن إبراهيم الصيمري
Name (translit)	Abū al-ʿAnbas Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ṣaymarī
Alias	Ṣaymarī ابو العمنس الصيمري Muḥammad al-Ṣaymarī Abū al-ʿAnbas al-Ṣaymarī
Born	210H/826J
Flourished
Died	274H/888J
Born in	Kufa
Lived in	Kufa
Notes	(From MAMS2): Poet, mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. He was a judge in Ṣaymar near Basra.
Number in MAMS	93
ismi_id	98260

Authored Works

5 works:

Astrology

Kitāb aṣl al-uṣūl fī ṭabīʿat al-burūj wa-al-kawākib wa-jamīʿ ḥalātihā wa-dalāʾilihā , كتاب أصل الأصول في طبيعة البروج والكواكب وجميع حلاتها ودلائلها

Astronomical Tables/zījes

Al-Zīj (al-Ṣaymarī) , الزيج

Astronomy: General

Kitāb al-madkhal ilá ṣināʿat al-nujūm , كتاب المدخل إلى صناعة النجوم

Astronomy: Practical

Kitāb fī al-ḥisāb al-nujūmī , كتاب في الحساب النجومي

Geometry: General

Kitāb handasat al-ʿaql , كتاب هندسة العقل

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P. 36.

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P. 38.

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.

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