Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Abdun al-Jabali al-Adadi () (died after 976) was a physician and mathematician from

Al-Andalus Al-Andalus translit. ; an, al-Andalus; ast, al-Ándalus; eu, al-Andalus; ber, ⴰⵏⴷⴰⵍⵓⵙ, label= Berber, translit=Andalus; ca, al-Àndalus; gl, al-Andalus; oc, Al Andalús; pt, al-Ândalus; es, al-Ándalus () was the M ...

. He is the author of ''Risala fi al-Taksir'' (Treatise on Measurements), the oldest remaining mathematical text from

. He travelled to the learning centers in the East in the years after 958 C.E. He stayed in

Basra Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is han ...

and visited al-Fustat (Old

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...

), Egypt where he was put in charge of the hospital. Ibn Abdun studied the ideas of

Abu Sulayman Sijistani Abu Sulayman Muhammad Sijistani, ( fa, ابوسلیمان سجستانی) also called al-Mantiqi (the Logician) (c. 912 – c. 985 CE), named for his origins in Sijistan or Sistan province in present-day Eastern Iran and Southern Afghanistan, becam ...

(d. 990) and according to one source he met him personally in Basra. He returned to Cordoba in 971 C.E.. He entered the service of the Caliph al-Mustansir (died 976) and his son Hisham II al-Mu'ayad. Ibn Abdun was the teacher of Ibn al-Kattani.

Camilla Adang Camilla Adang is a Dutch associate professor of Islamic studies at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel. Biography Adang was born in Bussum, Netherlands in 1960.

et al., ''Ibn Hazm of Cordoba: The Life and Works of a Controversial Thinker'', 2012, p. 423

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