| Muslim scholar Islamic golden age |
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| Name: | Ābu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawārī |
| Title: | Al-Dinawari |
| Birth: | 828CE |
| death: | 896CE |
| Main interests: | botanist, historian, geographer, astronomer and mathematician |
Ābu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawārī (828 - 896) was an Kurdish botanist, historian, geographer, astronomer and mathematician [1]. He was born in Dinawar, (north-east of Kermanshah in present-day western Iran). He studied astronomy, mathematics and mechanics in Isfahan and philology and poetry in Kufa and Basra. He died on July 24, 896 at Dinawar. His most renowned contribution is Book of Plants. He is considered among the very first writers to discuss the ancestry of the Kurds. He wrote a book about this subject called Ansâb al-Akrâd (Ancestry of the Kurds).
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Works
Math and Natural Sciences
- Kitâb al-jabr wa'l-muqâbila ("Book of Algebra")
- Kitâb al-nabât ("Book of Plants")
- Kitâb al-kusuf ("Book of Solar Eclipses")
- Kitâb al-radd alâ rasad al-Isfahâni ("Refutation of al-Isfahani's Astronomical Observations")
- Kitâb al-hisâb ("Book of Arithmetics")
- Bahth fi hisâb al-Hind ("Analysis of Indian Arithmetics")
- Kitâb al-jam' wa'l-tafriq ("Book of Arithmetics")
- Kitab al-qibla wa'l-ziwal ("Book of Astral Orientations")
- Kitâb al-anwâ' ("Book of Weather")
- Islâh al-mantiq ("Improvement upon Logic")
Social Sciences and Humanities
- Akhbâr al-tiwâl ("General History")
- Kitâb al-kabir ("Grand Book" in history of sciences)
- Kitâb al-fisâha ("Book of Rhetorics")
- Kitâb al-buldân ("Book of Geography")
- Kitâb al-shi'r wa'l-shu'arâ ("Book of Poetry and Poets")
- Ansâb al-Akrâd ("Ancestry of the Kurds").
Translations
His General History has been edited and published numerous times (Vladimir Guirgass, 1888; Muhammad Sa'id Rafi'i, 1911; 'Abd al-Munim 'Amir & Jamal al-din Shayyal, 1960; Isam Muhammad al-Hajj 'Ali, 2001), but has not been translated into a Western language.
