Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb خلاصة الحساب ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn عاملي، بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين

IO Islamic 1362, f 4r

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The record is made up of Ff. 4r. It was created in 18th century. It was written in Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: Oriental Manuscripts.

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Preface only to the Summa of Arithmetic (خلاصة الحساب) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محمد بن حسين العاملي; d. 1621).

Begins (f. 4r, lines 3-6):

نحمدك يا من لا يحيط بجمع نعمه عدد ولا ينتهى

تضاعف قسمه إلى أمد ونصلي على سيدنا محمد

المجتبي وعترته سيما الأربعة المتناسبة أصحاب

العباء ...

Ends (f. 4r, lines 12-16):

ونظمت المهم من أبوابه وفصوله وتضمنت منه

فوائد لطيفة هي خلاصة كتب المتقدمين

وانطوت منه على قواعد شريفة هي زبدة رسائل

المتأخرين سميتها خلاصة الحساب ورتبتها على

مقدمة وأبواب

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Ff. 4r
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Arabic in Arabic script
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Manuscript item

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British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
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IO Islamic 1362, f 4r

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18th century (CE, Gregorian)

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Loth, Otto, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. (London: Printed by order of the Secretary of State for India in Council, 1877), Item 761, p. 221

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Editions:

  • ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Khul āṣat al-ḥisāb (Tabriz?: Maṭba‘ Muḥammad Zuyūr, 1262)
  • ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb: al-khulāṣat fī ‘ilm al-ḥisāb wa al-jabr wa al-muqābilah; nuskhah-i taṣḥīh shudah hamrāh bā matn-i chāp-i sangi ̄ (Qum: Majma‘-i Z̲akhā’ir-i Islāmī, 2011)
  • ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Khulāsat al-ḥisāb, ma‘a taḥshīyah jadīdah kāfīyah li-ḥall al-ṣi‘āb wa-ḍamīmah lā’iqah bi-taḥ‘ṣīl al-nāzil wa-min al-judhūr wa-al-ki‘āb (Diyūband: Kutubʹkhānah-i Raḥīmīyah, 1974)
  • ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Rīyāḍīyāt (Mathematical Works) , ed. by G. Shawky (Aleppo: Institute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo, 1976) pp. 31-163

Edition and German translation:

  • ‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, Essenz der rechenkunst von Mohammed Beha-eddin ben Alhossain aus Amul, arabisch und deutsch , ed. and trans. by G. H. F. Nesselmann (Berlin, 1843)

Study:

  • Hashemipour, Behnaz, '‘Āmilī: Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 42-43

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