ʿABDALLĀH B. EBRĀHĪM AL-KABRĪ ABŪ ḤAKĪM, mathematician, d. 476/1083-84. He was the pupil of Ḥosayn b. Moḥammad al-Vannī (killed in Baghdad in Ḏu’l-ḥeǰǰa, 451/January-February, 1060). According to Ebn Ḵallekān (tr. de Slane, I, p. 421), Ḵabrī wrote a Talḵīṣ fi’l-ḥesāb (“ Summary concerning computation”).
Bibliography
Suter, Mathematiker, p. 108, no. 250.
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Pingree, David. "ʿABDALLĀH KABRĪ." Encyclopaedia Iranica. Published December 15, 1982. https://doi.org/10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_4426