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Abu al-Salt al-Andalusi

أبو الصلت الأندلسي

c. 1087 CE · 480 AH – c. 1134 CE · 529 AH

Abu al-Salt Umayya al-Dani — Andalusi physician, astronomer and poet; reached Alexandria in 489, was exiled by al-Afdal Shahanshah in 505, and wrote his astrolabe treatise, the Wajiz on astronomy, the book of simple drugs and a book of logic in captivity; died at Mahdia at the start of 529 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abdallah ibn Hamuwayh al-Juwayni · Abu Ali al-Tusi · Abu Bakr ibn Abd al-Baqi · Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari

Overview

Abu'l-Salt Umayya b. 'Abd al-'Aziz b. Abi'l-Salt of al-Andalus, the Dani; born at Denia around 480, he took learning from a company of Andalusians such as Abu'l-Walid al-Baji, came to Alexandria in 489 — and al-Afdal Shahanshah, amir of the armies, banished him from Egypt in 505. 1

Works in captivity

During his confinement he composed the epistle on working the astrolabe, al-Wajiz on astronomy, the book of simple drugs, a logic book called Mut'at al-dhihn, and the Intisar refuting 'Ali b. Ridwan; then he moved to al-Mahdiyya and died there on Monday at the start of 529. 1

Sources

  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
  • Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
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