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Manuscript/Mixed Material Sharḥ al-ʻallāmah Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʻī ʻalá al-Nuzhah fī al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Hāʼim شرح العلامة احمد ابن قاسم الغزي الشافعي على النزهة في الحساب لإبن الهائم

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Title

  • Sharḥ al-ʻallāmah Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʻī ʻalá al-Nuzhah fī al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Hāʼim

Other Title

  • شرح العلامة احمد ابن قاسم الغزي الشافعي على النزهة في الحساب لإبن الهائم

Summary

  • Manuscript consists of an introduction, 2 chapters, and an epilogue. The text is a commentary on Ibn al-Hāʼim's book Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār, which itself represents the author's abridgement of his work Murshidat al-tālib illá asnaʼ al-maṭālib.
  • The present manuscript preserves a copy of Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Shāfi'ī al-Ġhazzī's Kitāb sharḥ al-nuzha fī 'ilm al-ḥisāb (The book of the explanation of the excursion in the science of calculus), a work that exemplifies the lively interest in the mathematical sciences that persisted in the Islamic world well after the end of the "classical" period that saw the flowering of Arabic sciences. Kitāb sharḥ al-nuzha fī 'ilm al-ḥisāb is technically a supercommentary. Al-Ġhazzī 's work is an explanation of Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī 'ilm al-ghubār (The excursion of the observer in the science of numerals), which in turn was an abridgment by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farāḍī ibn al-Hā'im (around 1356-1412) of his own mathematical treatise entitled Murshid al-ṭālib ilā asnā' al-maṭālib (A student guide to the summit of learning). The original work, the abridgement, and the commentary all have an explicit didactic aim. The discussion of numerals and the treatment of the four arithmetical operations are presented in an incremental and extremely clear way. In the present manuscript, rubricated headings and passages underlined in red ink help the reader to identify the sections of the treatise and to distinguish between the original treatise by Ibn al-Hā'im and al-Ġhazzī's work. The latter is characterized by a large number of practical examples, with mathematical operations explained both in the text and displayed in tables. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Ghazzī, Aḥmad ibn Qāsim, -1575
  • Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1412
  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [17--?]

Headings

  • -  Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Nuzhat al-nuẓẓār fī ʻilm al-ghubār
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Binding: old cardboard; leather spine.
  • -  Fol. 1a-64b; fol. 65a-66b blank.
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-715.
  • -  Ms.
  • -  Nastaʻliq script; 23 lines in written area, 16 x 10 cm.
  • -  Paper: yellowed cream with watermarks; leaves loose from binding; traces of humidity on leaves 51-56. Black ink on title page; black and red in text. Text is partially underlined in red ink on leaves 21-28. A few marginal notes. The formula Yā Kabikaj iḥfaẓ al-waraq appears on the title page in a second hand; title in a third, later hand. Catchwords on rectos.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  • -  Arabic.
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Incipit: الحمد لله الباري النسم، العادل فيما قسم، العالم بجـذر الأهم، الواحد الأحد المتفرد بالقدم ... أما بعد فهذا ما دعت إليه حاجة الطلاب لعلم الحساب، الراغبين في تحقيق معاني الكتاب الموسوم بنزهة النظار في علم الغبار للعلامة العالم أبى العباس شهاب الدين أحمد بن الهائم من شرح كاف ذي بيان شاف يوضح مراده ويتمم مفاده ....

Medium

  • 64 leaves (23 lines), bound : paper ; 24 x 16 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • QA23 .G39 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2008401934

Online Format

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Ghazzī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim, -1575, Aḥmad Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Al-HāʼIm, Maḥmūd Al-Imām Manṣūrī, and Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ al-ʻallāmah Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʻī ʻalá al-Nuzhah fī al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Hāʼim. [17--?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401934/.

APA citation style:

Ghazzī, A. I. Q., Ibn Al-HāʼIm, A. I. M., Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. Sharḥ al-ʻallāmah Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʻī ʻalá al-Nuzhah fī al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Hāʼim. [17--?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2008401934/.

MLA citation style:

Ghazzī, Aḥmad Ibn Qāsim, -1575, et al. Sharḥ al-ʻallāmah Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ghazzī al-Shāfiʻī ʻalá al-Nuzhah fī al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Hāʼim. [17--?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2008401934/>.