أصول أقليدس

"Usul Uqlidis" (The Elements of Euclid), a book on the principles of geometry and arithmetic. ¹

"Kashf al-Zunun" reports, from Qadi-zada al-Rumi, that one of the kings of Greece asked a man from Tyre named Euclid to refine and arrange the book, and that it became famous under his name. Al-Kindi's epistle says that a man named Apollonius the carpenter composed it in fifteen treatises; Euclid was then ordered to correct it, and he explained thirteen treatises. His student Asclepius found the fourteenth and fifteenth treatises. ¹

A number of people translated it into Arabic, among them Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Kufi, in two translations, the Harunian and the Ma'munian, on which reliance is placed. It was also translated by Hunayn ibn Ishaq and Thabit ibn Qurra al-Harrani, and Abu Uthman al-Dimashqi translated some of its treatises. ¹

Among its commentaries are the doubts of Ibn al-Haytham, the exposition of the tenth treatise by Abu Ja'far al-Khazin, and the revision of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. ¹