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IO Islamic 1270, ff 48r-56r
- Record Id:
- 040-002839739
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002839702
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023619981.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023697729.0x00000a
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IO Islamic 1270, ff 48r-56r
- Title:
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Maqālah fī al-jabr مقالة في الجبر
Omar Khayyam عمر الخيامي
- Scope & Content:
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Treatise on algebra by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ‘Umar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyāmī al-Nīshābūrī (غياث الدين أبو الفتح عمر بن إبراهيم الخيامي النيشابوري; 1048-c 1123) usually called the Risāla fī al-barāhīn ʿalā masāʾil al-jabr wa-al-muqābala (رسالة في البراهين على مسائل الجبر والمقابلة).
The text contains many diagrams.
Begins (f. 48v, line 2-3):
الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ولا عدوان إلا على الظالمين والصلوة
على الأنبياء وخصوصًا على محمد وآله الطاهرين أجمعين
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Library
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002839702
040-002839739 - Is part of:
- IO Islamic 1270 : Compendium of texts on mathematics and optics mostly by Alhazen (ابن الهيثم)
IO Islamic 1270, ff 48r-56r : Maqālah fī al-jabr مقالة في الجبرOmar Khayyam عمر الخيامي - Hierarchy:
- 032-002839702[0010]/040-002839739
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IO Islamic 1270
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Ff. 48r-56r
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023619742.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Publications:
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Edition:
- Omar Khayyam, L'algèbre d'Omar Alkhayyâmî, ed. and trans. by Franz Woepcke (Paris: B. Duprat, 1851)
Translation:
- Omar Khayyam, An Essay by the Uniquely Wise 'Abdel Fath Omar Bin Al-Khayam on algebra and equations, trans. by Roshdi Khalil (Reading: Garnet, 2005)
- Omar Khayyam, The algebra of Omar Khayyam, trans. by Daoud S. Kasir (New York: Columbia University, 1931; reprint New York: AMS Press, 1972)
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Omar Khayyam, mathematician, astronomer, and poet, 1048-1131
- Subjects:
- Algebra -- Early works to 1800
