At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · mathematician
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
MathematicsAstronomy and timekeeping
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Azdi, known as Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi. A scholar from Marrakesh in mathematics, arithmetic and astronomy, who wrote on the sciences of calculation. He was born in 654 AH (1256 CE) and died in 721 AH (1321 CE). 1
People and things also explored
Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad· Al-Badi' al-Astarlabi· al-Khujandi Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr· al-Khwarizmi· al-Nayrizi· al-Tizini Muhammad ibn Muhammad· Hassan al-Jabarti· Ibn al-Ha'im al-Ishbili
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-al-banna-al-marrakushi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.