Mohammed Ibn Abdun Al-Jabali
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Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Abdun al-Jabali al-Adadi () (died after 976) was a physician and mathematician from
Al-Andalus Al-Andalus () was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The name refers to the different Muslim states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492. At its greatest geographical extent, it occupied most o ...
. He is the author of ''Risala fi al-Taksir'' (Treatise on Measurements), the oldest remaining mathematical text from
Al-Andalus Al-Andalus () was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The name refers to the different Muslim states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492. At its greatest geographical extent, it occupied most o ...
. He travelled to the learning centers in the East in the years after 958 C.E. He stayed in
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and visited al-Fustat (Old
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), Egypt where he was put in charge of the hospital. Ibn Abdun studied the ideas of Abu Sulayman Sijistani (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 (Hebrew: קמילה אדנג; born 1960) is a Dutch associate professor of Islamic studies at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel. Biography Adang was born in Bussum, Netherlands in 1960.10th-century physicians Physicians from al-Andalus 10th-century mathematicians Mathematicians from al-Andalus 10th-century writers from al-Andalus