Al-Uqlidisi, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim

الإقليدسي أحمد بن إبراهيم

980 CE · 370 AH

A mathematician who probably lived in Damascus. His laqab al-Uqlidisi is linked to the Euclid text he copied and studied.

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Roles
mathematician
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad · Abu Ali al-Muhassin al-Tanukhi · Abu Nu'aym al-Asbahani, Ahmad ibn Abd Allah · Al-Abhari, Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abd Allah

Mathematics

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  • ScientistTradition

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People and things also explored

Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad· Al-Badi' al-Astarlabi· Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad· Ibn Hudhayl, Yahya ibn Ahmad

Sources

  • Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Uqlidisi, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-uqlidisi-ahmad-ibn-ibrahim/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.

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Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad

One of the leading Muslim scholars of mathematics and astronomy, born in Buzjan in Khurasan.