'ABDULLAH B. MUHAMMAD B. MUHAMMAD AL-KHAWWAM AL-BAGHDADI (D.1325 AD): AL-FAWA'ID AL-BAHA'IA FI AL-QAWA'ID AL-HISABIYA, ON GEOMETRY, ALGEBRA AND ARITHMETIC, NEAR EAST, DATED 735 AH/1335 AD
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'ABDULLAH B. MUHAMMAD B. MUHAMMAD AL-KHAWWAM AL-BAGHDADI (D.1325 AD): AL-FAWA'ID AL-BAHA'IA FI AL-QAWA'ID AL-HISABIYA, ON GEOMETRY, ALGEBRA AND ARITHMETIC, NEAR EAST, DATED 735 AH/1335 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 62 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, important words and titles written in red, numerous diagrams and tables, f.1a with a later illuminated shamsa, f.1b with illuminated heading, in brown stamped binding
17.5 by 12.5cm.
Ibn al-Khawwam was a pupil of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. He worked in Baghdad and compiled several works on geometry and arithmetic, including a commentary on Euclid. The current work is divided into five chapters with an introduction and a conclusion and deals with algebra, arithmetic and geometry. Copies of this work are held in Berlin, Cairo and Tashkent. For further information on the author see Rosenfeld & Ihsanoglu 2003, no.657, p.231.