Sinan ibn Thabit

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Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra سنان بن ثابت بن قرة ) was an ethnic Mandean physician and a Sabian who later converted to Islam.^[1] He was the son of Thabit ibn Qurra and the father of Ibrahim ibn Sinan.

References

↑ Ibn Khallikan's biographical dictionary By Ibn Khallikān, pg. 45

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Abu Said Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .

Mathematics in medieval Islam

Mathematicians

9th century	'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk Sind ibn Ali Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar Al-Kindi Al-Mahani Banū Mūsā Hunayn ibn Ishaq Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī Thābit ibn Qurra Na'im ibn Musa Sahl ibn Bishr Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi

10th century	Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi Abu-Mahmud Khojandi Ahmad ibn Yusuf Al-Nayrizi Al-Saghani Brethren of Purity Ibn Sahl Ibn Yunus Ibrahim ibn Sinan Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī Sinan ibn Thabit Al-Isfahani Abu-Mahmud Khojandi Nazif ibn Yumn Abū Sahl al-Qūhī

11th century	Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī Abu Nasr Mansur Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī Alhazen Ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī Al-Karaji Al-Sijzi Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī Avicenna Ibn Tahir al-Baghdadi Kushyar ibn Labban Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud

12th century	Al-Khazini Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al Omar Khayyám Jabir ibn Aflah Abu Bakr al-Hassar

13th century	Muhyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī Sharaf al-Dīn al-Tūsī Ibn al‐Ha'im al‐Ishbili Ibn Abi al-Shukr

14th century	Yaʿīsh ibn Ibrāhīm al-Umawī Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi Ibn al-Shatir Kamāl al-Dīn Fārisī Al-Khalili Qotb al-Din Shirazi Ahmad al-Qalqashandi

15th century	Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī al-Qalaṣādī Ali Qushji Jamshīd al-Kāshī Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī Ulugh Beg Ibn al-Majdi

16th century	Al-Birjandi Muhammad Baqir Yazdi Taqi al-Din Ibn Hamza al-Maghribi Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi

Treatises

Almanac
Book of Fixed Stars
Book of Optics
De Gradibus
Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
Tables of Toledo
Tabula Rogeriana
The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing
The Book of Healing
Zij
Zij-i Ilkhani
Zij-i-Sultani

Concepts

Alhazen's problem

Centers

Influences

Influenced

Persondata
Name	Thabit ibn Qurra, Sinan
Alternative names
Short description	Islamic astronomer
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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