Ibn al-Ustāḏ al-Hawwārī al-Mālaqī/ابن الاستاذ الهواري المالقي

Fierro (M.), Schmidtke (S.), Stroumsa (S.), Histories of Books in the Islamicate World, special issue of Histories of Books in the Islamicate World, 5 (2017), pp. 86-117, 2017

Virtually unknown two decades ago, Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī (d. 353/964) is today acknowledged as the genuine author of both the Rutbat al-ḥakīm and the Ghāyat al-ḥakīm/Picatrix and, in all likelihood, as the man by whom the encyclopaedic corpus of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ was introduced into al-Andalus. In the early 30s of the tenth century, Maslama al-Qurṭubī travelled extensively through the Middle East and pursued there his education under a great number of reputed masters. Through a thorough investigation of the sources at hand, the present paper seeks to reconstrue the various steps of this riḥla by establishing a comprehensive list of the scholars Maslama met with in the Orient. Among the main novelties of this investigation, one points out Maslama’s meeting with Qāsim b. Muṭarrif al-Qaṭṭān, who is commonly regarded by the historians of Arabic science as the author of the first treatise of astronomy ever compiled in al-Andalus.

Historia Mathematica, 1998

REVIEWS HM 25 on the puzzle of the identity of Ocreatus is characteristically apposite and elegant. A. Simi and L. Toti Rigatelli write illuminatingly on some 14th-and 15th-century texts on practical geometry. P. Kunitzsch writes in ''The Peacock's Tail'' on the adoption of the names given to some of the theorems of Euclid's Elements, some of them introduced into the West possibly, it seems, by Adelard of Bath, but adapted as late as the 14th century. There is a Byzantine contribution from C. J. Scriba, on a 15th-century text which contains a discussion of a stock problem about a woman who takes eggs to market. M. Folkerts discusses the Rithmomachia of Werinher of Tegernsee with a helpful sense of its place in the Rithmomachia story. He discusses the evidence of Werinher's authorship of the content and provides an edition from MS. Addit. 22790 of the British Library. J. van Maanen explores ''The 'Double-Meaning' Method for Dating Mathematical Texts.'' He means by this that material in a text may indirectly indicate the date of its composition; for example, where 16th-and 17th-century texts use year-numbers in their examples. He is perhaps a little over-sanguine about the possibilities of such devices, but this is a useful discussion. P. Bockstaele and H. J. M. Bos contribute a pair of papers on 17th-century themes. P. Bockstaele writes on ''A Challenge to the Mathematicians of the University of Leuven as a New Year's Gift for 1639'' which, he alleges, has a good deal to tell us about the practice of mathematics at the University of Leuven in its day. H. J. M. Bos discusses Johann Molther's Problema deliacum of 1619, which deals with the duplication of the cube and advances a fresh solution. This is, then, an immensely rich volume, in which the papers are often groundbreaking, are uniformly of high quality, and include a number of definitive statements of the status quaestionis on their topics. ARTICLE NUMBER HM972168 Raf' al-h. ijā b 'an wujū h a'mā l al-h. isā b li Ibn al-Bannā al-Murrā kušī (†721/1321) [The Raising of the Veil on the Operations of Calculation of Ibn al-Bannā of Marrakech]. By Mohamed Aballagh. Fez (Publications of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Dhar El-Mehrez, No. 5). 1994. 360 pp.

Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020

This is a pre-print of an article published in Acta Applicandae Mathematicae.

Arabic Textual Sources for the Crusades, 2024

Gowaart Van Den Bossche Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbdallāh b. Rashīd al-Dīn b. ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir (d. 692/1293) was a chancery scribe (kātib), poet, prose stylist, and historian of the early Mamlūk period. During his lifetime and in later centuries he was regarded as one of the most gifted chancery writers of his time, but he is now mostly remembered for having composed biographies (sīra, pl. siyar) of three early Mamlūk sultans: al-Ẓāhir Baybars (r. 658-76/1260-77), al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn (r. 678-89/1279-90), and al-Ashraf Khalīl (r. 689-92/1290-3). Due to the author's close links with the authorities in Egypt and Syria in the second half of the seventh/thirteenth century, these texts have traditionally been viewed as important contemporary sources for the early period of the Mamlūk sultanate. In this contribution, I evaluate the perspectives these three biographies provide for the study of the waning Frankish presence in the Levant over the course of the second half of the seventh/thirteenth century and reconsider their general textual Sitz im Leben as products of chancery practices rather than of sultanic legitimisation policies. Biographical sketch 2 1 The author wishes to thank Alexander Mallett for his invitation to contribute this chapter to the present volume, and one of the anonymous peer reviewers for providing many helpful suggestions and comments to improve the text. 2 Several modern scholars have provided fairly extensive biographies of the author. Of these, the most up to date is F. Bauden, 'Ibn ʿAbd al-Ẓāhir', EI3. The most detailed account of the author's activities as attested in various chronicles and prescriptive works is given by E. Strauß (Ashtor), 'Muḥyî'ddîn b. ʿAbdaẓẓâhir',

Hugoye, 2018

Nikolai N. Seleznyov (ed. and trans.), Книга собеседований Илии, митрополита Нисивина, с везиром Абӯ-л-Ḳасимом ал-Х̣ усайном ибн ʿАлӣ ал-Маг ̣рибӣ и Послание митрополита Илии везиру Абӯ-л-Ḳасиму / Kitāb al-Maǧālis li-Mār Iliyyā muṭrān Nuṣaybīn wa-Risālatuhu ilā l-wazīr al-kāmil Abī l-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Maġribī / Liber sessionum sive disputatio inter Eliam metropolitan Nisibenum et vezirum Abū ʾl-Qāsim al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī al-Maġribī et Epistola eiusdem Eliae Nisibeni ad vezirum Abū ʾl-Qāsim missa (Moscow: Grifon, 2017/8). Pp. 210 + ٢٦٨. ISBN 978-5-98862-366-3 + 978-5-98862-367-0 (two volumes); 978-5-98862-371-7 (one-volume edition).

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Working under very difficult conditions, Codera and Ribera were nevertheless able to put the bulk of the biographical legacy from al-Andalus at the disposal of future scholars. Subsequently, the works of al-I:I umaydi (d. 488/1095; Jadhwat al-muqtabis), al-Qa<;li 'lya<;i (d. 544/ l 149;Tartib al-madarik), lbn 'Abd al-Malik al-Marrakushi (d. 703/ 1303-1304; al-Dhayl wa-l-takmila) and Ibn al-Zubayr (d. 708/1308; Kitab $ilat al-?ila) were edited in Morocco, Lebanon and Egypt, thus completing the establishment of a series of texts covering the joint North African and Andalusi biographical memory of Islamic scholarship. The last contribution to this century-old enterprise has been, paradoxically, the edition of the oldest biographical dictionary still preserved: the Akhbar al-fuqaha' wa-l-muJ:iaddithin written by the Qayrawani scholar Ibn I:Iarith al-Khushani (d. 361/971),4 on his colleagues from al-Andalus, where he lived and died. Biographical dictionaries relating to al-Andalus are plentiful, as can be seen from the above-mentioned list, and they cover nearly the whole period of the country's existence as an Islamic society.5 This abundance contrasts sharply with neighbouring countries such as Morocco, where the biographical tradition appeared much later in history. In al-Andalus, the first biographical compilations can be dated already in the 3rd ;9th century. Although texts from this period are no longer extant, they are reproduced, fragmentarily, in the works of authors from the 4th /10th century.6 It would seem that early on Andalusi 3 All of these works were published between 1882 and 1895. 4Published in Madrid, 1992, as Volume 3 of the series Fuentes Ardbico-Hispanas. Other biographical texts still in manuscript form are those by Ibn ' Askar ('Udaba' Malaqa) and al-Sal:iill (Bug hyat al-salik). See both M. I. Calero Secall and V. Martinez Enamorado, Malaga, ciudad de al-Anda/us, (Malaga, 1995), p. 38 and 47. 5other works containing valuable biographical data are those of Ibn Sa'ld (al-Mughrib fi }mla al-Maghrib) and Ibn al-Khatib (al-IJ:iata fl akhbar Ghamata). 6See M. L. Avila, La sociedad hispanomusulmana al final del califato: aproximaci6n a un estudio demogrefico, (Madrid, 1997).

Fuel and Energy Abstracts, 1998

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AFKAR Jurnal Akidah & Pemikiran Islam, 2021

The article seeks to study the work of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (543-606 A.H/1149-1209 A.D), entitled al-Khalq wa al-Baʿth. This work is still available in manuscripts and has not hitherto been published yet. This paper discusses the authorship of the above work by al-Rāzī. This encompasses the issue of the ascription of the work to al-Rāzī, the title, the originality and year of the authorship, and information related to the manuscript and its location. This article also describes the nature and the content of al-Khalq wa al-Baʿth as one among al-Rāzī's works in the field of Kalām.

The purpose of this paper is to outline the conditions in which Eastern Islamic science reached al-Andalus and was later transmitted to medieval Europe, mainly through translation. Until the end of the 10th century al-Andalus was more or less systematically aware of the scientific productions of the Mashriq, but the situation changed with the fall of the Caliphate: Eastern books written after ca. 950 AD only exceptionally reached the great cities of the ṭawāќʾif kingdoms. As a consequence, Eastern books translated into Latin or Castilian in the 12th and 13th centuries, were usually written before ca. 950. Later Arabic sources translated into these languages were local Andalusī productions. The paper analyses the two elements necessary for this process of scientific transmission: the existence of libraries and the presence of patrons who sustained the needs of translators.