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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb sharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī al-ḥisāb
كتاب شرح اللمع في الحساب / The text is a commentary on al-Lumaʻ al-yasīrah fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Hāʼim. According to the colophon, the author stated that he finished writing the commentary on 27 Ramaḍān 873 [10 April 1469] in Abū Tīj in al-Ṣa'īd, [Egypt]. The treatise in this manuscript is a commentary on a mathematical treatise by Šihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Hā'im (circa...- Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 17??
- Resource: - 40 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm
النزهة الحساب لابن هائم According to Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (Supplement II, p. 154), the text is an abridgement of the author's book al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār. This manuscript is an 18th-century copy of Nuzhat al-ḥisāb (The excursion of calculus) by mathematician Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farāḍī ibn al-Hā'im (around 1356-1412). The copyist of this brief but densely written codex provided his name and the date of...- Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ḥanbalī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
- Date: 1772
- Resource: - 24 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHādhā Bughyat al-ṭullāb ʻalá Munyat al-ḥussāb
هذا بغية الطلاب على منية الحساب / | Also known as: Bughyat al-ṭullāb fī sharḥ Munyat al-ḥussāb Poem written in rajaz meter. Marginal notes indicate that the manuscript was compared with another copy of the same text. This manuscript offers a clear example of the liveliness of the North African mathematical tradition under the Muslim-Berber dynasties that ruled over the Islamic West from the 12th century to the first half of the 17th century. They were the Almohads (12th-13th centuries), the...- Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Ghāzī, Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Shandawīlī, Harīdī Aḥmad
- Date: 17??
- Resource: - 231 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialBahāʼīyah fī al-ḥisāb
بهائية في الحساب Text is a well-known manual on arithmetic. The author of this mathematical treatise, Bahā' al-Dīn Al-'Amilī (1547-1621), is considered one of the leading intellectuals of 17th-century Safavid Persia (present-day Iran). He was born in Baalbek (present-day Lebanon) but moved to Persia in his youth where he devoted his entire life to study. He excelled in various fields, leaving a legacy of more than 80...- Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ṭabbāqī, Muḥammad - ʻāmilī, Bahāʼ Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
- Date: 17??
- Resource: - 74 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb rafʻ al-ḥijāb ʻan wujūh aʻmāl al-ḥisāb : al-mulakhkhaṣah maʻa taqrīb al-maʻānī wa-ḍabṭ al-qawāʻid wa-al-mabānī fī ghayr hādhā al-kitāb
كتاب رفع الحجاب عن وجوه اعمال الحساب : الملخصة مع تقريب المعاني وضبط القواعد والمباني في غير هذا الكتاب / Ms. is a commentary in two parts on the author's treatise on mathematics (Talkhīṣ aʻmāl al-ḥisāb). The establishment of the Berber-Muslim dynasty of the Almohads in North Africa and Andalusia in the 12th century coincided with the decline in scientific advances in many fields of knowledge, including medicine. This was not the case with mathematics, and the treatise preserved in this manuscript together with...- Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-Bannāʼ, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Jabartī, Ḥasan Ibn Ibrāhīm - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
- Date: 17??
- Resource: - 109 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSharḥ al-Lumaʻ fī ʻilm al-ḥisāb
شرح اللمع في علم الحسالب The system of fara'iḍ (shares) for inheritances is considered to be one of the most advanced innovations introduced by Muslim conquerors in Middle Eastern and North African societies. The exact calculation of shares of inheritance is a complex chapter in Islamic law, and it is not surprising that Muslim intellectuals and scientists developed a system of mathematical tools in order to master "the science...- Contributor: Ibn Al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad - Khāsikī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Sibṭ Al-Māridīnī, Badr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 1761
- Resource: - 44 pages