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TEXT

Mā suʾila ʿanhu min raʾy al-mutakallimīn fī anna al-ajsām murakkabah min jawāhir fardah

Title (arabic)

ما سئل عنه من رأى المتكلمين في أنّ الأجسام مركبة من جواهر فردة
Title (translit)

Mā suʾila ʿanhu min raʾy al-mutakallimīn fī anna al-ajsām murakkabah min jawāhir fardah
Author

ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá al-Sumaysāṭī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Geometry: General
Text type

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

Despite the title this work deals with geometrical problems relating to arcs.
ismi_id

374898

Manuscript Witnesses

2 witnesses:
Mā suʾila ʿanhu min raʾy al-mutakallimīn fī anna al-ajsām murakkabah min jawāhir fardah_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._Marsh_720
Mā suʾila ʿanhu min raʾy al-mutakallimīn fī anna al-ajsām murakkabah min jawāhir fardah_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._Thurston_3

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. 101 (no. 270), M3.

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

P. 414.