Al-Qalqashandi
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al-qalqashandi-210-656615
title:
Al-Qalqashandi
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Shihāb al-Dīn Abū 'l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn ‘Alī ibn Aḥmad ‘Abd Allāh al-Fazārī al-Shāfiʿī better known by the epithet al-Qalqashandī, was a medieval Egyptian encyclopedist, polymath and mathematician. A native of the Nile Delta, he became a Scribe of the Scroll, or clerk of the Mamluk chancery in Cairo, Egypt. His magnum opus is the voluminous administrative encyclopedia Ṣubḥ al-Aʿshá.
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Egyptian polymath and mathematician (1355/56–1418)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qalqashandi
date created:
2006-06-21T03:12:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T16:16:17Z
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