Author
Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī
Publication Date
1114 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 6280, ff 142v-158v
Record ID
vdc_100078046632.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
1114 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Very popular Safavid textbook of arithmetic by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (Baha al-Din Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Amili; d. 1621).
The treatise consists of an introduction, nine chapters, and a conclusion. Each chapter subdivided into sections (Chapters), in some cases preceded by one or more introduction (Introduction). This copy is missing the author's preface, and begins directly with the introduction. The treatise contains numerous diagrams.
The copy was completed in 1114/1702-3 by Ibn Muḥammad Riḍá Muḥammad Amīn (Ibn Muḥammad Amīn, see ff. 131v, lines 6-9; 142r, lines 18-19 and 158v, transcribed below).
Contents:
Introduction, f. 142v;
Chapter One: Calculation with Integers... (Chapter One on the Calculation of Al-Sihah..., ff. 142v-147r);
Chapter Two: Calculation with Fractions (Chapter Two on Calculating Fractions, ff. 147r-148v);
Chapter Three: Deriving Unknowns by Means of the Four Proportions (Chapter Three: Deriving Unknowns by Means of the Four Proportions, ff. 148v-149r);
Chapter Four: Deriving Unknowns by Means of Calculating the Two Errors.
Chapter Five: Deriving Unknowns by Means of Operating with the Opposite (Chapter Five: Deriving Unknowns by Means of Operating with the Opposite, ff. 149v-150r);
Chapter Six: On Mensuration (Chapter Six on Surveying, ff. 150r-151v);
Chapter Seven: What Follows Mensuration, Such as the Levelling of Land for Portions of Waterways and Knowing of the Altitude of Heights, the Breadth of Rivers and the Depths of Wells.
Chapter Eight: Deriving Unknowns by Way of Algebra and Muqābalah (Chapter Eight: Deriving Unknowns by Way of Algebra and Muqābalah, ff. 152v-155r);
Chapter Nine: The Noble Rules and Helpful Notes That are Obligatory and Indispensible for Accountants
Conclusion (Conclusion, f. 158r-158v).
Begins (f. 142v, lines 2-4):
Introduction: Arithmetic is a science used to extract numerical unknowns from information
Specific and subject to the number obtained in the subject as before, and then counting the calculation from the mathematician
There is a word in it, and the number comes before a quantity that refers to one and what it consists of...
Ends (f. 158v, lines 11-19):
...So know its worth
Do not make her dowry cheap or withhold from someone who is not her family, and do not give it away except to someone who is keen to have it
Do not give it to a student with a thick nature, lest you be hanging pearls on someone else
Dogs' necks, many of their demands for maintenance and secrecy are real
By hiding from most of the people of this time
And keep my commandment to you
God is a protector
On you
Done
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 158v, to either side of explicit):
Freed by the slave [M] Hamad
Amen
In the year 1114
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards,
A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894
(London: British Museum, 1912), p. 40
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Editions:
‘Āmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn,
Khulāṣat 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
