al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf b. Maṭar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf b. Maṭar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
De Young, Gregg

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060311
Doc. NO	:	ALei708
Main Entry	:	Brentjes, Sonja
	:	De Young, Gregg
Title & Author	:	al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf b. Maṭar - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ De Young, Gregg
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(921 words)
Abstract	:	Al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf b. Maṭar (fl. 169–218/786–833) was reportedly the first person to translate Euclid’s Elements and Ptolemy’s Almagest into Arabic. Nothing is known of his personal life. The Arabic translation of the Almagest , ascribed to both al-Ḥajjāj and Elias, son of Sergius, is extant. When compared with the later Arabic version attributed to Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn (d. 297/910), the differences between the two versions suggest that they are independent translations. Arabic sources report that al-Ḥajjāj translated the Elements at the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei708.pdf