Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsỳ ibn Aḥmad al-Māhānī

PERSON

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá ibn Aḥmad al-Māhānī

Name (arabic)	أبو عبد الله محمد بن عيسی بن أحمد الماهاني
Name (translit)	Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsá ibn Aḥmad al-Māhānī
Alias	Māhānī
Flourished	084x CE/ 023x AH
Died	087x CE/ 025x AH
Number in MAMS	82
ismi_id	99240

Authored Works

7 works:

Astronomy: General

Risālaẗ fī ʿurūḍ al-kawākib , رسالة في عروض الكواكب

Astronomy: Practical

Maqālaẗ fī maʿrifaẗ al-samt li-ayy sāʿaẗ aradta wa-fī ayy mawḍiʿ aradta , مقالة في معرفة السمت لأيّ ساعة أردت وفي أيّ موضع أردت

Geometry: General

Kitāb fī sittaẗ wa-ʿišrīn šakl min al-maqālaẗ al-ūlỳ min Uqlīdis allati lā yuḥtāju fī šayʾ minhā ilỳ al-ḫulf , كتاب في ستّة وعشرين شكل من المقالة الأولى من أقليدس التي لا يحتاج في شيء منها إلى الخلف

Tafsīr al-maqālaẗ al-ʿāširaẗ min kitāb Uqlīdis , تفسير المقالة العاشرة من كتاب أقليدس

Mathematics: General

Risālaẗ fī al-muškil min amr al-nisbaẗ , رسالة في المشكل من أمر النسبة

Spherics

Iṣlāḥ kitāb Manālāwus fī al-aškāl al-kuriyyaẗ (Māhānī) , إصلاح كتاب منالاوس في الأشكال الكريّة

[Commentary on the second book of the work "On Sphere and Cylinder" by Archimedes]

References

Rashed, Roshdi, and Athanase Papadopolulos. 2017. Menelaus’ Spherics: Early Translation and Al-Māhānī Al-Harawī’s Version. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter .

Ben Miled, Marouane. 2005. Opérer Sur le Continu: Traditions Arabes du Livre X Des Eléments D’Euclide, Avec L’édition et la Traduction du Commentaire D’Abū ʿAbdi Allāh Muḥammad B. ʿĪsā Al-Māhānī. Carthage: Académie tunisienne des sciences, des lettres et des arts, Beït al-Hikma.

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. 42-43 (no. 82).

Ben Miled, Marouane. (1999) 1999. “Les Commentaires D’al-Māhānī et D’un Anonyme du Livre X Des Éléments D’Euclide”. Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 9 (1): 89-156.

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

Vol. 1, p. 383.

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. 74-76.

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

Pp. 22-27.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1979. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 7, Astrologie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 404.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 155-56.

Youschkevitch, Adolf, M. Cazenave, and K. Jaouiche. 1976. Les Mathématiques Arabes (VIIIe-XVe Siècles). Paris: J. Vrin.

Pp. 82-84.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 260-62.

Lippert, Julius, and Jamāl Al-Qifṭī. 1903. “Taʾrīḫ Al-Hukamāʾ”. Leipzig: Theodor Weicher.

Suter, Heinrich. 1892. “Das Mathematiker-Verzeichniss Im Fihrist Des Ibn Abi Ja’qub An-Nadim”. Zeitschrift Für Mathematik Und Physik 37 Supplement.

Pp. 16-25.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.

Pp. 266-71.

Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan Asāmī Al-Kutub Waʾl-Funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum et Encyclopaedicum a Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 1, pp. 382, 390.

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

Vol. 1, p. 597.