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Thābit ibn Qurra (full name: Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Zahrūn al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ, Arabic: أبو الحسن ثابت بن قرة بن زهرون الحراني الصابئ, Latin: Thebit/Thebith/Tebit; 826 or 836 – February 19, 901), was a polymath known for his work in mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and translation.
Apr 11, 2024 · Thābit ibn Qurrah (born c. 836, Syria—died 901, Baghdad, Iraq) was an Arab mathematician, astronomer, physician, and philosopher, a representative of the flourishing Arab-Islamic culture of the 9th century. Thābit was a scion of a prominent family settled in Ḥarrān, a city noted as the seat of a Hellenized Semitic astronomical cult of ...
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Jan 1, 2020 · Thābit ibn Qurra (836–901) was an influential figure in the Kindī Circle, a group of scholars who popularized the classical, scientific, and philosophical texts in Muslim society under the reign of the early ‘Abbāsid dynasty.
Thābit ibn Qurra. Born near Ḥarrān, upper Mesopotamia, (Turkey), circa 830. Died Baghdad, (Iraq), 18 February 901. As a member of the Banū Mūsā circle of scholars in 9th‐century Baghdad, Thābit ibn Qurra contributed significantly to the development of astronomy and other sciences through his translations and commentaries of Greek and ...
Abū'l‐Ḥasan Thābit ibn Qurra ibn Marwān al‐Ḥarrānī al‐Ṣābi˒ (836–901) was a Syrian mathematician, astronomer, physicist, physician, geographer, philosopher, historian, and translator from Greek and Syriac into Arabic. His scientific treatises were written primarily in Arabic and partly in Syriac.
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Jan 1, 2016 · Thābit ibn Qurra. Abū’l - Ḥasan Thābit ibn Qurra ibn Marwān al - Ḥarrānī al - Ṣābi ˒ (836–901) was a Syrian mathematician, astronomer, physicist, physician, geographer, philosopher, historian, and translator from Greek and Syriac into Arabic. His scientific treatises were written primarily in Arabic and partly in Syriac.
View PDF. Thābit ibn Qurra’s Version of the Almagest and Its Reception in Arabic Astronomical Commentaries (based on the presentation held at the Warburg Institute, London, 5th November 2015) Dirk Grupe* 1. Introduction Since Paul Kunitzsch’s ground-breaking study of the Arabic and Latin transmission of Claudius Ptolemy’s Syntaxis ...
