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Manuscript/Mixed Material Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah هذه حاشية الشيخ الإمام العالم العلامة أحمد الشافعي الجناجي المالكي على شرح شيخ الإسلام زكريا الأنصاري على المقنع لإبن الهائم في علم الجبر والمقابلة / Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī ʻalá Sharḥ Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah / هذا شرح شيخ الاسلام زكريا الانصاري لمنظومات لابن الهائم في علم الجبر و المقابلة المسمى بفتح المبدع في شرح المقنع / هذه حاشية العالم العلامة الأستاذ الحفني المسماة بفرائد عوائد جبرية على شرح السبط للياسمينية / هذا كتاب اللمعة الماردنية في شرح الياسمينية في علم الجبر والمقابلة / هذه حاشية العالم العلامة الشيخ أحمج محمد الشافعي الجناجي المالكي على شرح السبط المارديني على الياسمينية في علم الجبر و المقابلة

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Title

  • Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah

Other Title

  • هذه حاشية الشيخ الإمام العالم العلامة أحمد الشافعي الجناجي المالكي على شرح شيخ الإسلام زكريا الأنصاري على المقنع لإبن الهائم في علم الجبر والمقابلة
  • Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī ʻalá Sharḥ Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
  • هذا شرح شيخ الاسلام زكريا الانصاري لمنظومات لابن الهائم في علم الجبر و المقابلة المسمى بفتح المبدع في شرح المقنع
  • هذه حاشية العالم العلامة الأستاذ الحفني المسماة بفرائد عوائد جبرية على شرح السبط للياسمينية
  • هذا كتاب اللمعة الماردنية في شرح الياسمينية في علم الجبر والمقابلة
  • هذه حاشية العالم العلامة الشيخ أحمج محمد الشافعي الجناجي المالكي على شرح السبط المارديني على الياسمينية في علم الجبر و المقابلة

Summary

  • Text is a commentary on Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī's commentary on the mathematical assumptions addressed by Ibn al-Hāʼim in al-Muqniʻ on the algebraic equality and inequality of functions.
  • The Arabic mathematical tradition, which flourished during the Middle Ages, transmitted and enriched the knowledge derived from Greek and Indian sources. Arabic mathematicians further developed these studies, seeking to answer theoretical as well as practical problems. Medieval Arabic mathematical treatises were extensively copied, studied, and commented upon in subsequent centuries, as exemplified in this manuscript. This supercommentary (commentary on a commentary) by Aḥmad Muhammad al-Šāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī elucidates an earlier commentary by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī (circa 1420-1519) on a work by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farāḍī ibn al-Hāʼim (circa 1356-1412) concerning the algebraic equality and inequality of functions. It touches upon various mathematical solutions to concerns of daily life, such as the fair distribution of inheritances and other problems of a purely practical nature. Al-Hāʼim's writings had the didactic aim of presenting complex mathematical achievements of both Greek and Arabic origin to the wider public. This manuscript was copied in 1888 by a scribe named Ṭaha ibn Yūsuf in Nasta'liq script in black ink framed by double red lines, with the outer margins used for subheadings. The manuscript was in the collection of Shaykh Maḥmūd al-Imām al-Manṣūrī, professor of religion at Al-AzharUniversity in Cairo, which was purchased by the Library of Congress in 1945. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Janājī, Aḥmad Muḥammad
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Yūsuf, Ṭāhā, scribe
  • Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad, approximately 1423-approximately 1520
  • Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1305 [August 1888].

Headings

  • -  Anṣārī, Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad,--approximately 1423-approximately 1520.--Fatḥ al-mubdiʻ fī sharḥ al-Muqniʻ
  • -  Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Muqniʻ fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah
  • -  Algebra--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
  • -  أنصاري، زكريا بن محمد،--approximately 1423-approximately 1520.--فتح المبدع في شرح المقنع
  • -  إبن الهائم، أحمد بن محمد،---1412.--مقنع في علم الجبر والمقابلة

Notes

  • -  [Egypt?]
  • -  Binding: old decorated cardboard.
  • -  Fol. 93a-181a.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-738.
  • -  Ms.
  • -  Nastaʻliq script; 23 lines in written area, 16 x 9 cm.
  • -  Paper: yellowed cream, in good condition; loose. Black ink used for the text, which is framed by double red lines. Outer margins used for subheading. Catchwords on rectos.
  • -  Transcribed by Ṭaha Yūsuf, who completed it in the middle of the month Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 1305 AH.
  • -  With: Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah al-Shaykh Aḥmad Muḥammad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ al-Sibṭ al-Māridīnī ʻalá al-Yāsamīnīyah fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah / Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Janājī.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  ‏Incipit: بإسم الله الرحمان الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين و الصلاة و السلام على سيد المرسلين سيدنا محمد و على أله و صحبه أجمعين أما بعد فيقول العبد الفقير أحمد الشافعي الجناجي . . . .
  • -  ‏Explicit/Colophon: ووافق الفراغ من كتابتها بقلم كاتبها الفقير طه يوسف ليلة الخميس المباركة الموافق لنصف شهر ذي الحجة الحرام من شهور سنة الف وثلاثمائة وخمسة هجريه علي صاحبها افضل الصلاة وازكي التحية.

Medium

  • 89 leaves (23 lines), bound : paper ; 23 x 17 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QA154.8 .J36 1888

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008427060

Online Format

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  • image

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Janājī, Aḥmad Muḥammad, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, Ṭāhā Yūsuf, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad Anṣārī, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Al-HāʼIm, and Mansuri Collection. Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah. [Dhū al-Ḥijjah 88, 1888] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2008401698/.

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Janājī, A. M., Manṣūrī, M. A., Yūsuf, Ṭ., Anṣārī, Z. I. M., Ibn Al-HāʼIm, A. I. M. & Mansuri Collection. (1888) Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah. [Dhū al-Ḥijjah 88] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2008401698/.

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Janājī, Aḥmad Muḥammad, et al. Hādhihi Ḥāshīyat al-Shaykh al-Imām al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah Aḥmad al-Shāfiʻī al-Janājī al-Mālikī ʻalá Sharḥ Shaykh al-Islām Zakarīyā al-Anṣārī ʻalá al-Muqniʻ li-ibn al-Hāʼim fī ʻilm al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah. [Dhū al-Ḥijjah 88, 1888] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2008401698/>.