![]() ![]() ![]() Jawāmiʿ akhbār al‐umam min al‐Arab wa‐l Ajam ( جوامع أخبار الأمم من العرب والعجم 'Universal History of Nations – Arab and Non‐Arab').Iṣlāh Ḥarakāt an-Najūn ( اصلاح حركات النجوم) on the correction of earlier astronomical tables.Their research contributed to the Tables of Toledo. He taught and directed astronomical research to a group of young scholars, precision-instrument-makers, astronomers and scientists – including the renowned Al-Zarqali – and encouraged them to invent. ![]() When on his appointment as qāḍi of Toledo by the governor Yaḥyā al-Qādir, he continued this work and produced several scholarly works that contributed to the Tables of Toledo. His teacher, Abū Isḥaq Ibrāhīm ibn Idrīs al-Tajibī, directed him towards mathematics and astronomy, in which he excelled. Toledo was then a great centre of learning and Ṣāʿid studied fiqh (law), tafsir (Qu'ranic exegesis), Arabic language, and al-Adab al-'Arabī ( Arabic literature). He was educated in fiqh (law) first in Almería, then Córdoba, before graduating, it seems, in Toledo in 1046, aged eighteen. The early biographers Ibn Bashkuwāl, Ibn Umaira al-Dhabbi, Al-Safadi and Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari tell us Ṣāʿid's teachers in Toledo were Abū Muḥammad ibn Hazm ( أبو محمد بن حَزْم), Al-Fataḥ ibn al-Qāsim ( الفَتْح بن القاسم), and Abū Walīd al-Waqshi ( أبو الوليد الوَقّشِي). His grandfather had been qadi (judge) of Sidonia and his father was qadi of Toledo until his death in 1057 when Ṣāʿid succeeded him. His Arab origins came from the tribe of Taghlib and his family had fled Cordova to take refuge in Almería during the civil war. Ṣāʿid al-Andalusī was born in Almería in Al-Andalus during the Banu Dhiʼb-n-Nun dynasty and died in Toledo. 2.1 Tabaqāt al-ʼUmam (Categories of Nations).He practised as a mathematical scientist with a special interest in astronomy, and compiled a famous biographic encyclopedia of science that quickly became popular in the empire and the Islamic East. ![]()
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