Jābir b. Aflaḥ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Jābir b. Aflaḥ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Samsó, Julio

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062350
Doc. NO	:	ALei2747
Main Entry	:	Samsó, Julio
Title & Author	:	Jābir b. Aflaḥ - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Samsó, Julio
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(1,705 words)
Abstract	:	Abū Muḥammad Jābir b. Aflaḥ al-Ishbīlī or al-Andalusī was a mathematician and theoretical astronomer who lived most likely in Seville during the first half of the sixth/twelfth century. Virtually nothing is known about his life, but his chronology seems well established due to the fact that: 1) Maimonides (d. 601/1204; Guide , 268–9) says that he was acquainted with Jābir’s son; 2) According to Ibn al-Qifṭī (d. 645/1248), Joseph ben Yehudah ben Shamʿūn (d. 623/1226) brought Jābir’s Iṣlāḥ al-Majisṭī (“Revision
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2747.pdf