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Thabit ibn Qurra (826-901) was one of history´s most original thinkers and displayed expertise in the most difficult disciplines of this time: geometry, number theory, and astronomy as well as ontology, physics, and metaphysics. Approximately a dozen of this shorter mathematical and philosophical writings are collected in this volume. Critically edited with accompanying commentary, these writings show how Thabit Ibn Qurra developed and reconceived the intellectual inheritance of ancient Greece in all areas of knowledge. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles!Al-Ṣābiʾ Thābit ibn Qurra al-Ḥarrānī (836 - February 18, 901) was a Mandean physician, who was known as Thebit in Latin. A great translator, astronomer, and mathematician.Thabit was born in Harran (known as Carrhae in antiquity) in Mesopotamia (in modern day Iraq). At the invitation of Muhammad bin Musa bin Shakir, one of the Banu Musa brothers, Thabit went to study in Baghdad at the House of Wisdom. He belonged to the Sabians of Harran sect, a sect of Hermeticists,. Sources credit him to be a Mandaean . In either case, both sects have a great interest in astronomy, astrology, and mathematics (especially in the case of Mandaeans). This sect lived in the vicinity of the main center of the Caliphate until 1258, when the Mongols destroyed their last shrine. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Alhazen, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Muhammad Al-Fazari, Al-Battani, Taqi Al-Din, Abū Muhammad Al-Hasan Al-Hamdānī, Ibn Al-Banna, Nur Ed-Din Al Betrugi, Ali Ibn Isa, Ebn Al Aalam. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Perse:ابن هیثم ,arabe : ابو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم) dit Alhazen (Bassorah 965 - Le Caire 1039) est un mathématicien, un philosophe et un physicien arabe ou persan de confession musulmane. Il est l'un des pères de la physique quantitative et de l'optique physiologique. Alhazen est né en 965 à Bassorah dans l'actuel Irak où il reçut une éducation qu'il compléta cependant dans la ville de Bagdad. À l'époque, Bassorah était sous le contrôle de la dynastie des Buwayhides qui régnèrent sur la Perse. C'est pourquoi il est parfois mentionné sous le nom d'al-Basri. Bien que cette version ne soit pas acceptée par tous, la plupart des gens s'entendent pour dire qu'il est décédé au Caire en Égypte en 1039. Alhazen commença sa carrière de scientifique dans sa ville natale de Bassorah. Il fut cependant convoqué par le calife Hakim qui voulait maîtriser les inondations du Nil qui frappaient l'Égypte année après année. Après avoir mené une expédition en plein désert pour remonter jusqu'à la source du fameux fleuve, Alhazen se rendit compte que ce projet était pratiquement impossible. De retour au Caire, il craignait que le calife qui était furieux de son échec ne se vengeât et décida donc de feindre la folie. Le calife se borna à l'assigner à résidence. Alhazen profita de ce loisir forcé pour écrire plusieurs livres sur des sujets variés comme l'astronomie, la médecine, les mathématiques, la méthode scientifique et l'optique. Le nombre exact de ses écrits n'e...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Saints Cyril and Methodius, Thābit Ibn Qurra, William of Septimania, Al-Mubarrad, Ansgarde of Burgundy. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Saints Cyril and Methodius (Greek: , Old Church Slavonic: ) were two Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples of Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavs, for which they received the title "Apostles to the Slavs". They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe the Old Church Slavonic language. After their deaths, their pupils continued their missionary work among other Slavs. Both brothers are venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as saints with the title of "Equals to the Apostles". In 1880, Pope Leo XIII introduced their feast into the calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1980, Pope John Paul II declared them co-patrons of Europe, together with Saint Benedict of Nursia. The two brothers were born in Thessaloniki - Cyril in 827-828 and Methodius in 815-820. Cyril was reputedly the youngest of seven brothers, according to the "Vita Cyrilli" ("The Life of Cyril"). Their father was Leo, a droungarios of the Byzantine theme of Thessaloniki, and their mother was Maria, who may have been a Slav. The two brothers lost their father when Cyril was only fourteen, and the powerful minister Theoktistos became their protector. Theoktistos was at the time logothetes tou dromou, one of the chief ministers of the Empire. He was also responsible, along with the regent Bardas, for initiating a far-reaching educational program within the Empire which culminated in the establishment of the University of Magnaura, where Cyril was to teach. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=29161 ... Read more

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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug:(836 - February 18, 901) was a Mandean physician, who was known as Thebit in Latin. A great translator, astronomer, and mathematician. Thabit was born in Harran (known as Carrhae in antiquity) in Mesopotamia (in modern day Iraq). At the invitation of Muhammad bin Musa bin Shakir, one of the Banu Musa brothers, Thabit went to study in Baghdad at the House of Wisdom. He belonged to the Sabians of Harran sect, a sect of Hermeticists,. Sources credit him to be a Mandaean . In either case, both sects have a great interest in astronomy, astrology, and mathematics (especially in the case of Mandaeans). This sect lived in the vicinity of the main center of the Caliphate until 1258, when the Mongols destroyed their last shrine. During Muslim rule, they were a protected minority, and around the time of al-Mutawakkil's reign their town became a center for philosophical, esoteric, and medical learning. They may have been joined by the descendants of pagan Greek scholars who, not tolerated in the Byzantine Empire, settled in lands that became part of the Abbasid caliphate. After 750 AD, some Muslim rulers and scholars became interested in Greek culture and science, collecting and having translated many ancient Greek works in the fields of philosophy and mathematics. Although they later became Arabic speakers, in pre-Islamic times, it was common for Sabians to speak Greek. Thabit and his pupils lived in the midst of the most intellectually vibrant, and probably the largest, city of the time, Baghdad. He occupied himself with mathematics, astronomy, astrology, magic, mechanics, medicine, and philosophy. His native language was Syriac, which was the eastern Aramaic dialect from Edessa, and he knew Greek well too. He translated from Greek Apollonius, Archimedes, Euclid and Ptolemy. Thabit had revised the translation of Euclid's Elements of Hunayn ibn Ishaq. He also rewrote Hunayn's translation of Pto...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Chapters: 9th-Century Mathematicians, Al-Kindi, Banū Mūsā, Muhammad Ibn Jābir Al-Harrānī Al-Battānī, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Ali Ibn Sahl Rabban Al-Tabari, Abu Ma'shar Al-Balkhi, Habash Al-Hasib Al-Marwazi, Abū Kāmil Shujā Ibn Aslam, Ahmed Ibn Yusuf, Mahavira, Al-Nayrizi, Al-Abbās Ibn Said Al-Jawharī, Govindasvāmi, Al-Ḥajjāj Ibn Yūsuf Ibn Maṭar, Al-Mahani, Abu Sa'id Al-Darir Al-Jurjani, Joseph of Spain, Govindsvamin, Sankara Narayana, Prithudaka, Prthudakasvami. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 78. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(Arabic: ) (c. 801873 CE), also known to the West by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus, was an Arab Iraqi polymath: an Islamic philosopher, scientist, astrologer, astronomer, cosmologist, chemist, logician, mathematician, musician, physician, physicist, psychologist, and meteorologist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim Peripatetic philosophers, and is known for his efforts to introduce Greek and Hellenistic philosophy to the Arab world, and as a pioneer in chemistry, medicine, music theory, physics, psychology,the philosophy of science, and is also known for being one of the fathers of cryptography. Al-Kindi was a descendant of the Kinda tribe which is a well known Arabic tribe native of Najd (present day Saudi Arabia). He was born and educated in Kufa, before pursuing further studies in Baghdad. Al-Kindi became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom, and a number of Abbasid Caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language. This contact with "the philosophy of the ancients" (as Greek and Hellenistic philosophy was often referred to by Muslim scholars) had a profound effect on his intellectual development, and led him to write original treatises on subjects ranging from Islamic ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=272065 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Alhazen, Al-Kindi, Ibn Tahir Al-Baghdadi, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Muhammad Al-Fazari, Al-Battani, Al-Qalasadi, Ahmad Ibn Yusuf, Ibn Al-Banna, Ibn Yahyā Al-Maghribī Al-Samaw'al, Abou Ma'shar Al-Balkhî, Abu Kamil, Ibn Sahl, Al-Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf Ibn Matar, Kamāl Al-Dīn Al-Fārisī, Liste Des Mathématiciens Arabo-Musulmans, Abu'l-Hasan Al-Uqlidisi, Habab. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Perse:ابن هیثم ,arabe : ابو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم) dit Alhazen (Bassorah 965 - Le Caire 1039) est un mathématicien, un philosophe et un physicien arabe ou persan de confession musulmane. Il est l'un des pères de la physique quantitative et de l'optique physiologique. Alhazen est né en 965 à Bassorah dans l'actuel Irak où il reçut une éducation qu'il compléta cependant dans la ville de Bagdad. À l'époque, Bassorah était sous le contrôle de la dynastie des Buwayhides qui régnèrent sur la Perse. C'est pourquoi il est parfois mentionné sous le nom d'al-Basri. Bien que cette version ne soit pas acceptée par tous, la plupart des gens s'entendent pour dire qu'il est décédé au Caire en Égypte en 1039. Alhazen commença sa carrière de scientifique dans sa ville natale de Bassorah. Il fut cependant convoqué par le calife Hakim qui voulait maîtriser les inondations du Nil qui frappaient l'Égypte année après année. Après avoir mené une expédition en plein désert pour remonter jusqu'à la source du fameux fleuve, Alhazen se rendit compte que ce projet était pratiquement impossible. De retour au Caire, il craignait que le calife qui était furieux de son échec ne se vengeât et décida donc de feindre la folie. Le calife se borna à l'assigner à résidence. Alhazen profita de ce loisir forcé...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 355 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Al-Khawarizmi, Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Muhammad Al-Fazari, Hassan Koubeissi, Mahmoud Ben Othman, Ibn Wahshiyya, Ibn Al-Muqaffa, Ahmed Rami, Al-Hajjaj Ibn Yusuf Ibn Matar. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Al-Khawarizmi, né vers 783, originaire de Khiva dans la région du Khwarezm qui lui a donné son nom, mort vers 850 à Bagdad, est un mathématicien, géographe, astrologue et astronome musulman perse dont les écrits, rédigés en langue arabe, ont permis l'introduction de l'algèbre en Europe. Il est à l'origine des mots « algorithme » (qui n'est autre que son nom latinisé, plus précisément, le mot « algorithme » résulte de la fusion du mot de grec ancien arithmos, qui signifie « nombre », avec le nom du père de l'algèbre : Al-Khawarizmi) et « algèbre » (issu d'une méthode et du titre d'un de ses ouvrages) ou encore de l'utilisation des chiffres arabes dont la diffusion dans le Moyen-Orient et en Europe provient d'un autre de ses livres (qui lui-même traite des mathématiques indiennes). Son apport en mathématiques fut tel qu'il est également surnommé « le père de l'algèbre », avec Diophante d'Alexandrie, dont il reprendra les travaux. En effet, il fut le premier à répertorier de façon systématique des méthodes de résolution d'équations en classant celles-ci. Il ne faut pas confondre ce savant avec un autre mathématicien perse : Abu-'Abdollâh Mohammad Khuwârizmi qui, lui, est l'auteur de Mafâtih al-'Olum (ouvrage de mathématiques écrit vers 976). Un cratère de la Lune a été nommé en son honneur : le cratère Al-Khwarizmi. Il n'inventa pas les algorithmes (le plus ancien algorithme alors connu était celui d'Euclide, et on en découvrira au XXème siècle dans les anciennes tablettes de Babylone, s...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Al-Kindi, Banū Mūsā, Muhammad Ibn Jābir Al-Harrānī Al-Battānī, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Abu Ma'shar Al-Balkhi, Habash Al-Hasib Al-Marwazi, Abū Kāmil Shujā Ibn Aslam, Ahmed Ibn Yusuf, Mahavira, Al-Nayrizi, Al-Abbās Ibn Said Al-Jawharī, Govindasvāmi, Al-Ḥajjāj Ibn Yūsuf Ibn Maṭar, Al-Mahani, Abu Sa'id Al-Darir Al-Jurjani, Joseph of Spain, Govindsvamin, Sankara Narayana, Prithudaka, Prthudakasvami. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt:(Arabic: ) (c. 801873 CE), also known to the West by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus, was an Arab Iraqi polymath: an Islamic philosopher, scientist, astrologer, astronomer, cosmologist, chemist, logician, mathematician, musician, physician, physicist, psychologist, and meteorologist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Muslim Peripatetic philosophers, and is known for his efforts to introduce Greek and Hellenistic philosophy to the Arab world, and as a pioneer in chemistry, medicine, music theory, physics, psychology,the philosophy of science, and is also known for being one of the fathers of cryptography. Al-Kindi was a descendant of the Kinda tribe which is a well known Arabic tribe native of Najd (present day Saudi Arabia). He was born and educated in Kufa, before pursuing further studies in Baghdad. Al-Kindi became a prominent figure in the House of Wisdom, and a number of Abbasid Caliphs appointed him to oversee the translation of Greek scientific and philosophical texts into the Arabic language. This contact with "the philosophy of the ancients" (as Greek and Hellenistic philosophy was often referred to by Muslim scholars) had a profound effect on his intellectual development, and led him to write original treatises on subjects ranging from Islamic ethics and metaphysics to Islamic mathematics and pharmacology. In math...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=272065 ... Read more

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Chapters: Greek-syriac Translators, Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Masawaiyh, Sergius of Reshaina. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hunayn ibn Ishaq (also Hunain or Hunein) (Syriac: , Arabic: , ; known in Latin as Johannitius) (809-873) was a famous and influential Assyrian Nestorian scholar, physician, and scientist, known for his work in translating scientific and medical works in Greek into Arabic and Syriac during the glory years of the Abbasid Caliphate. unayn ibn Isaq was the most productive translator of Greek medical and scientific treatises. He was originally from southern Iraq but he spent his working life in Baghdad, the center of the great ninth-century Greek-into-Arabic/Syriac translation movement. Impressively, Hunayn's translations did not require corrections at all. This perfection possibly came about because he mastered four languages: Arabic, Syriac, Greek and Persian. He studied Greek and became known among the Arabs as the "Sheikh of the translators." Hunayns method was widely followed by later translators. In the Abbasid era, a new interest has arisen in extending the studies of Greek science in the Middle East. At that time, there was a vast amount of information in Greek language pertaining to philosophy, mathematics, natural science, and medicine. However, this valuable information was at that time accessible only to a very small minority of Middle Eastern scholars who knew the Greek language. Therefore, a need for an organized translation move was imminent. Within time, Hunayn ibn Ishaq became arguably known as the chief translator of that era, beside laying out the foundations of Islamic medicine. In his lifetime, Ishaq translated 116 writings, a few of which were Platos Timaeus, Aristotles Metaphysics, and the Ol...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1101492 ... Read more

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Chapters: Hunayn Ibn Ishaq, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sufi, Qusta Ibn Luqa, Al-Ḥajjāj Ibn Yūsuf Ibn Maṭar. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hunayn ibn Ishaq (also Hunain or Hunein) (Syriac: , Arabic: , ; known in Latin as Johannitius) (809-873) was a famous and influential Assyrian Nestorian scholar, physician, and scientist, known for his work in translating scientific and medical works in Greek into Arabic and Syriac during the glory years of the Abbasid Caliphate. unayn ibn Isaq was the most productive translator of Greek medical and scientific treatises. He was originally from southern Iraq but he spent his working life in Baghdad, the center of the great ninth-century Greek-into-Arabic/Syriac translation movement. Impressively, Hunayn's translations did not require corrections at all. This perfection possibly came about because he mastered four languages: Arabic, Syriac, Greek and Persian. He studied Greek and became known among the Arabs as the "Sheikh of the translators." Hunayns method was widely followed by later translators. In the Abbasid era, a new interest has arisen in extending the studies of Greek science in the Middle East. At that time, there was a vast amount of information in Greek language pertaining to philosophy, mathematics, natural science, and medicine. However, this valuable information was at that time accessible only to a very small minority of Middle Eastern scholars who knew the Greek language. Therefore, a need for an organized translation move was immanent. Within time, Hunayn ibn Ishaq became arguably known as the chief translator of that era, beside laying out the foundations of Islamic medicine. In his lifetime, Ishaq translated 116 writings, a few of which were Platos Timaeus, Aristotles Metaphysics...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1101492 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abu l-Hasan Thabit ibn Qurra ibn Marwan as-Sabi' al-Harrani (* 826 in Harran, Türkei; ? 18. Februar 901 in Bagdad, Irak) war ein syrischer Mathematiker, Astronom, Astrologe, Magier, Physiker, Mediziner und Philosoph, der in Europa unter der latinisierten Form des Namens Thebit bekannt ist. Thabit ibn Qurra gehörte den Sabiern von Harran an, den Anhängern alter mesopotamischer Gestirnsreligionen. Unter Berufung auf die Suren 2:62 und 6:69 des Korans waren sie als Buchreligion geduldet. Sie befassten sich intensiv mit Astronomie/Astrologie, Magie und Mathematik. ... Read more

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Chapters: 901 Deaths, 901 Establishments, Thābit Ibn Qurra, List of State Leaders in 901, Adelaide of Paris, Muhammad Ibn Abi'l-Saj, Guaimar I of Salerno, Eudokia Baïana, New Minster, Winchester, Antony Ii of Constantinople, Grimbald. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(836 February 18, 901) was a Mandean physician, who was known as Thebit in Latin. A great translator, astronomer, and mathematician. Thabit was born in Harran (known as Carrhae in antiquity) in Mesopotamia (in modern day Iraq). At the invitation of Muhammad bin Musa bin Shakir, one of the Banu Musa brothers, Thabit went to study in Baghdad at the House of Wisdom. He belonged to the Sabians of Harran sect, a sect of Hermeticists,. Sources credit him to be a Mandaean . In either case, both sects have a great interest in astronomy, astrology, and mathematics (especially in the case of Mandaeans). This sect lived in the vicinity of the main center of the Caliphate until 1258, when the Mongols destroyed their last shrine. During Muslim rule, they were a protected minority, and around the time of al-Mutawakkil's reign their town became a center for philosophical, esoteric, and medical learning. They may have been joined by the descendants of pagan Greek scholars who, not tolerated in the Byzantine Empire, settled in lands that became part of the Abbasid caliphate. After 750 AD, some Muslim rulers and scholars became interested in Greek culture and science, collecting and having translated many ancient Greek works in the fields of philosophy and mathematics. Although they later became Arabic speakers, in pre-Islamic times, it was common for Sabians to speak Greek. Thabit and his pupils lived in the midst of the most intellectually vibrant, and probably the largest, city of the time, Baghd...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=207547 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Hunayn ibn Ishaq (also Hunain or Hunein) (Syriac: , Arabic: , ; known in Latin as Johannitius) (809-873) was a famous and influential Assyrian Nestorian scholar, physician, and scientist, known for his work in translating scientific and medical works in Greek into Arabic and Syriac during the glory years of the Abbasid Caliphate. unayn ibn Isaq was the most productive translator of Greek medical and scientific treatises. He was originally from southern Iraq but he spent his working life in Baghdad, the center of the great ninth-century Greek-into-Arabic/Syriac translation movement. Impressively, Hunayn's translations did not require corrections at all. This perfection possibly came about because he mastered four languages: Arabic, Syriac, Greek and Persian. He studied Greek and became known among the Arabs as the "Sheikh of the translators." Hunayns method was widely followed by later translators. In the Abbasid era, a new interest has arisen in extending the studies of Greek science in the Middle East. At that time, there was a vast amount of information in Greek language pertaining to philosophy, mathematics, natural science, and medicine. However, this valuable information was at that time accessible only to a very small minority of Middle Eastern scholars who knew the Greek language. Therefore, a need for an organized translation move was imminent. Within time, Hunayn ibn Ishaq became arguably known as the chief translator of that era, beside laying out the foundations of Islamic medicine. In his lifetime, Ishaq translated 116 writings, a few of which were Platos Timaeus, Aristotles Metaphysics, and the Old Testament, into Syriac and Arabic. Additionally, Ishaq produced 36 of his own books, in which 21 covered the fields... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1101492 ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Şanlıurfa, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Ibrahim Tatlıses, Fuat Necati Öncel, Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya, Ali Yasak. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:(836 February 18, 901) was a Mandean physician, who was known as Thebit in Latin. A great translator, astronomer, and mathematician. Thabit was born in Harran (known as Carrhae in antiquity) in Mesopotamia (in modern day Iraq). At the invitation of Muhammad bin Musa bin Shakir, one of the Banu Musa brothers, Thabit went to study in Baghdad at the House of Wisdom. He belonged to the Sabians of Harran sect, a sect of Hermeticists,. Sources credit him to be a Mandaean . In either case, both sects have a great interest in astronomy, astrology, and mathematics (especially in the case of Mandaeans). This sect lived in the vicinity of the main center of the Caliphate until 1258, when the Mongols destroyed their last shrine. During Muslim rule, they were a protected minority, and around the time of al-Mutawakkil's reign their town became a center for philosophical, esoteric, and medical learning. They may have been joined by the descendants of pagan Greek scholars who, not tolerated in the Byzantine Empire, settled in lands that became part of the Abbasid caliphate. After 750 AD, some Muslim rulers and scholars became interested in Greek culture and science, collecting and having translated many ancient Greek works in the fields of philosophy and mathematics. Although they later became Arabic speakers, in pre-Islamic times, it was common for Sabians to speak Greek. Thabit and his pupils lived in the midst of the most intellectually vibrant, and probably the largest, city of the time, Baghdad. He occupied himself with mathematics, astronomy, astrology, magic, mechanics, medicine, and philosophy. His ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=207547 ... Read more

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Title: Roshdi Rashed (ed.). Thabit ibn Qurra: Science and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Baghdad.(Book review)
Author: Muzaffar Iqbal
Publication: Islam & Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2010
Publisher: Center for Islam & Science
Volume: 8Issue: 1Page: 55(4)

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Francon, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Antoine Ii de Constantinople. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Francon (mort en 901), évêque de Liège de 855 à 901. Il fut également abbé de Lobbes. Avec Francon, monte sur le siège de Saint-Lambert, un homme jeune et vigoureux au caractère ferme mais aussi un intellectuel de la plus belle tenue. Tout porte à croire qu'il appartenait à la parenté de Charles le Chauve. En tout cas, c'est à l'école du palais de ce roi que Francon effectue de très brillantes études sous la direction du grand philosophe, saint Monnon. On a pu écrire qu'il était profondément versé tant dans les Écritures Saintes que dans la littérature profane. Il était à la fois philosophe, rhéteur, poète, musicien, orateur disert à l'esprit pénétrant. Francon, après avoir subi l'enseignement de l'école du palais, gagne Lobbes où il poursuit ses études et où, celles-ci achevées, il donne lui-même un enseignement remarqué. Lobbes représentait à cette époque l'enseignement universitaire le plus brillant. Fondée à la fin du VII° siècle par Saint Landelin († vers 695), cette abbaye bénéficia des largesses de Carloman, le frère de Pépin le Bref, et acquit rapidement la réputation d'être un centre culturel d'importance européenne. Francon soutint brillamment la réputation de son monastère et ne s'en désintéressa jamais. Il annexa l'abbaye de Lobbes à l'Église de Liège et en fit la plus haute école du pays. Lorsqu'il succéda, en 855, à Hartgar, il dirigea personnellement l'école de la cathédrale Saint-Lambert laquelle devint au cours des années qui suivirent l'une des plus recherchées d'Occident. En 859, nous le voyons assister au Concile de Savonnières - près de Toul - où Charles le Chauve vient se plaindre de ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more