TEXT

Risālah dar ʿilm-i ḥisāb [P] (al-Qūshjī)

Title (arabic)

رساله در علم حساب

Title (translit)

Risālah dar ʿilm-i ḥisāb [P] (al-Qūshjī)

Alias

Risālah dar ḥisāb
رساله در هيئه حساب لعلى قوشجى
Mīzān al-ḥisāb
Zubdat al-ḥisāb
رسالة هيئة در علم رياضى

Author

Language

Persian-Farsi

Subject

Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]

Incipit

الحمد لله ربّ العالمين والصلاة على محمد وآله أجمعين. أما بعد اين كتاب مشتمل است بر سه مقاله. مقاله اول درحساب اهل هند و ان مشتمل است بر مقدمه و دو باب...

Explicit

و مساحت جميع اقسام مذكوره از اسطوانه يعنى مستدير و مضلع و قايم ومايل حاصل ضرب قاعده اوست در ارتفاع او.

Notes

This treatise on mathematics, composed in Persian, along with Qushjī's larger Arabic treatise, al-Risāla al-Muḥammadiyya fī al-ḥisāb, were taught as a mid-level textbook in Ottoman madrasas.

ismi_id

206168

Literature References

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.

P. 286 (no. 845), M2.

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin, Ramazan Şeşen, and Cevat İzgi, eds. 1999. Osmanlı Matematik literatürü Tarihi = History of Mathematical Literature During the Ottoman Period. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Vol. 1, pp. 21-24 (no. 3), 3.