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Al-Samaw-al Polynomial. Illustration of the al-Bahir fi'l-Jabr "The Brilliant in Algebra" from the 12th century.. Al-Samawʾal ibn Yaḥyā al-Maghribī (Arabic: السموأل بن يحيى المغربي, c. 1130 – c. 1180), commonly known as Samawʾal al-Maghribi, was a mathematician, astronomer and physician. [1]
Ibn Said al-Maghribi wrote or compiled 'at least forty works on various branches of knowledge'. [8]Ibn Said's best known achievement was the completion of the fifteen-volume al-Mughrib fī ḥulā l-Maghrib ('The Extraordinary Book on the Adornments of the West'), which had been started over a century before by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥijārī (1106–55) at the behest of Ibn Said's great ...
Abu'l-Qasim al-Husayn was the son of Abu'l-Husayn Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Maghribi, himself the grandson of the family's founder, Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Muhammad al-Maghribi, a Persian official who had originally served at the Abbasid court of Baghdad as head of the diwan al-maghrib, the "Bureau of the West", whence the family's nisbah of "al-Maghribi". [2]
Yūsuf al-Maġribi (Arabic: يوسف المغربي) was a 17th-century traveler and lexicographer active in Cairo.He is the first author to treat Egyptian Arabic as a dialect distinct from Classical Arabic, compiling an Egyptian Arabic word list, the Raf` al-'iṣr `an kalām 'ahl miṣr (i.e. "apology of the Egyptian vernacular", literally "the lifting of the burden from the speech of the ...
Maghrebi script or Maghribi script or Maghrebi Arabic script (Arabic: الخط المغربي) refers to a loosely related family of Arabic scripts that developed in the Maghreb (North Africa), al-Andalus , and Bilad as-Sudan (the West African Sahel).
Kitāb al-bayān al-mughrib fī ākhbār mulūk al-andalus wa'l-maghrib (Book of the Amazing Story of the History of the Kings of al-Andalus and Maghreb) [1] [2] by Ibn Idhāri (var. Ibn Athari) of Marrakech in the Maghreb (now Morocco); an important medieval Arabic history of the Maghreb and Iberia, written at Marrakech ca. 1312 / 712 AH .
Alī ibn Walī Ibn Hamza al-Maghribi (Arabic: علي بن ولي بن حمزة المغربي), also known as Ibn Hamza Al-Gaza'iri [1] was a 16th-century Algerian mathematician. He was born between 1554-1575 [ 2 ] in Algiers in Ottoman Algeria and died around 1611, during the rule of Murad III .
Example of Maghribi script in a Qur'anic manuscript. The Maghribi script, developed from Kufic in the Maghreb and al-Andalus, was the standard system for handwriting in Morocco. Most manuscripts are written in the Andalusi script, a school of Maghribi; however, Berber writing systems were commonly used in southern parts of the Kingdom.