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Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Husayn Khazin (Persian: ابوجعفر خازن خراسانی; 900–971), also called Al-Khazin, was an Iranian [1] Muslim astronomer and mathematician from Khorasan. He worked on both astronomy and number theory .
Tacuinum Sanitatis, Lombardy, late 14th century (Biblioteca Casanatense, Rome).. The British Library possesses in its Oriental Manuscripts collection a presentation copy of Taqwīm as‑Siḥḥa from 1213 copied in Arabic for al-Malik al-Ẓāhir, son of Saladin.
The Khofi Alayee was written by Zayn al-Din Gorgani (1040–1136) also spelled al-Jurjani, after writing the first great Persian medical encyclopedia, the Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi also wrote the Khafi Alayee in the Persian language [1] as a contracted form of the Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi. [2]
Kitāb al-shakl al-mudawwar al-mustaṭīl ("The Book of the Elongated Circular Figure"), [32] [33] a mathematical treatise by al-Hasan—and the only one that is attributed to him— now lost. [ 1 ] [ 26 ] It contained a description of a procedure used to draw an ellipse using a length of string, a technique that is now known as the "gardener ...
Muwallad art from Toledo in Al-Andalus depicting the Alcázar in the year 976.AD. Abu Jafar ibn Harun al-Turjali (Arabic: أبو جعفر بن هارون الترجالي) (died c. 1180) was born and raised in Trujillo to a noted Muwallad Muslim family.
Manuscript of al-Majusi's Kitāb Kamil al-Sana'ah al-Tibbiyyah, copy created in Iran, dated January–February 1194.. The Complete Book of the Medical Art (Arabic: كامل الصناعة الطبية, Kitāb Kāmil al-Ṣināʻa al-Ṭibbīya), also known as The Royal Book (Arabic: الكتاب الملكي, Al-Kitāb al-Malakī), was written by Iranian physician 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi ...
De Gradibus was an Arabic book published by the Arab physician Al-Kindi (c. 801–873 CE). De gradibus is the Latinized name of the book. An alternative name for the book was Quia Primos. [1] In De Gradibus, Al-Kindi attempts to apply mathematics to pharmacology by quantifying the strength of drugs.
Al-Kazim was leader of the Shia community during the schism between the Ismaili and other branches of Islam after the death of the previous Imam Jafar al-Sadiq. [49] He established a network of agents who collected the khums in the Shia community of the Middle East and the Greater Khorasan .