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	Ibn Yunus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ibn Yunus (950?-1009) was an important Arab astronomer, whose astronomical works are noted for being ahead of their time, having been based on almost modern-like meticulous calculations and attention to detail.
		Ibn Yunus is also though to have been a poet, and to have used very large instruments in making his observations, though neither assertion is certain.
		Two of the instruments said to have been used by him include an armillary sphere having nine rings, each of which was said to have weighed 2,000 pounds, and large enough for a horse and rider to pass through; and a copper astrolabe three cubits across.
	www.kiwipedia.com /ibn-yunus.html (415 words)

	Ibn Yunus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early in the life of Ibn Yunus, the Fatimid dynasty come to power and the new city of Cairo was founded.
		Ibn Yunus is also thought to have been a poet, and to have used very large instruments in making his observations, though neither assertion is certain.
		Ibn Yunus crater, on the Moon, is named after him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ibn_Yunus (526 words)

	Ibn_Yunus - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
		Early in the life of Ibn Yunus, the Fatimid dynasty came to power and the new city of Cairo was founded.
		Ibn Yunus is also thought to have been a poet, and to have used very large instruments in making his observations, though neither assertion is certain.
		Ibn Yunus crater, on the Moon, is named after him.
	www.thewordbook.com /Ibn_Yunus (570 words)

	Yunus biography
		Ibn Yunus was closely connected with the Fatimids and two Caliphs supported his scientific work.
		Ibn Yunus and al-Hakim were both eccentrics, although al-Hakim's eccentricities were more damaging, while ibn Yunus's sound rather typical of someone totally absorbed in academic pursuits.
		Ibn Yunus predicted the date of his own death to be in seven days time when he was in good health.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Yunus.html (1347 words)

	Ibn Yunus Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ibn Yunus (950?-1009) was born in Islamic Egypt and served the Fatimid dynasty for twenty-six years.
		Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali Ibn 'Abd al-Rahman Ibn Ahmad Ibn Yunus al-Sadafi came from a respected family in Fustat, his great grandfather having been a companion of the famous legal scholar al-Sahfi and his father being a distinguished historian and scholar of hadith (the sayings of Muhammad).
		Ibn Yunus' importance in the history of astronomy stems mainly from this work, which is a particularly fine example of this class of astronomical handbook, the compilation of which concerned most Islamic astronomers.
	www.hps.cam.ac.uk /starry/ibnyunus.html (451 words)

	Podcast.net - The Podcast Directory
		Yunus Emre - "True speech is the fruit of not speaking." - with commentary by Ivan M. Granger.
		Umar Ibn al-Farid - "I sought her from myself, (from The Poem of the Sufi Way)" - with commentary by Ivan M. Granger.
		Yunus Emre is considered by many to be one of the most important Turkish poets...
	www.podcast.net /show/85135 (981 words)

	clm97-46. 43 Titles from Saudi Arabia. Cairo Library of Congress - Monographs
		Aqidat al-Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab al-Salafiyah wa-atharuha fi al-Alam al-Islami / talif Salih ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Abbud.
		@@ 26- LCN: 97965938 Ghusn, Abd Allah ibn Salih ibn Abd al-Aziz.
		Asma Allah al-husna / talif Abd Allah ibn Salih ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Ghusn.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /area-studies/MiddleEast/Cairo/97/046.html (1636 words)

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		Ibn Yunus dedicated his most famous astronomical work to the latter, al...
		Ibn Yunus was an Islamic mathematician known for his astronomical observations...
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	CESNUR 2004 - Understanding Islamic Fundamentalism: A Politico-Legal Analysis, by Yunus Soualhi
		Ibn Qudamah Al-Hanbali, a leading authority of the Hanbali Madhhab, held that the people of book can be fought without calling them to Islam,[47] indicating that they can be taken by surprise.
		Ibn al-‘Arabi; however, described the proponents of this view as having strayed[57] from the mainstream of classical jurists who upheld the abrogation theory.
		Ibn Taymiyyah delineates the word Jihad as an internal struggle within one’s self, propagating Islam, counter-arguing with a heretic, removing speculation and ambiguity, counseling and consultation in what benefits Muslims, seeking knowledge, defending the tenets of Islam, Encountering strayed views and fighting.
	www.cesnur.org /2004/waco_soualhi.htm (7048 words)

	Mohd Yunus: The poor man's banker : nobel peace prize, bangladesh, grameen bank, founder, professor Muhammad Yunus : ...
		In 1974, Prof Yunus, who was then the head of the Rural Economics Programme at the University of Chittagong, decided to take his students on a field trip to rural Bangladesh where a famine had killed thousands of people.
		Yunus worked on the premise that no one needs to teach the poor how to survive - the very fact that they are alive means that they know how to survive.
		Yunus in the world and it would be a better place to live.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/mohd-yunus-the-poor-mans-banker/23917-2.html (625 words)

	A Saying of the Prophet Regarding Fighters in "Hind" (India)
		Mohammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd Al-Rahim --- Asad ibn Musa --- Baqiyyah --- Abu Bakr Al-Zubaidi --- Muhammad ibn Al-Walid Al-Zubaidi --- Luqman ibn `aamir --- Abd Al-a`laa ibn `adiy Al-bahraaniy --- Thauba'n --- The Prophet (pbuh).
		Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal --- Ahmad ibn Hanbal --- Abu Nadhar --- Baqiyyah --- Abd Allah ibn Saalim --- Abu Bakr ibn Al-Walid Al-Zubaidi --- Muhammad ibn Al-Walid Al-Zubaidi --- Luqman ibn `aamir Al-Wassabi --- Abd Al-a`laa ibn `adiy Al-bahraaniy --- Thauban --- The Prophet (pbuh).
		Ibn Sa`d has also said that unless Hushaim expressly says that "such and such person narrated to us" (which incidentally he has not done in the narratives under consideration except one in which he narrates from Sayyaar, who according to Ahmad ibn Hanbal, he did not hear from), his narratives are of absolutely no value.
	www.understanding-islam.com /related/text.asp?type=question&qid=218&sscatid=68 (2089 words)

	Inventions by Muslims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ibn Firnas of Islamic Spain invented eyeglasses during the 9th century, and they were manufactured and sold throughout Spain for over two centuries.
		Ibn Sina and al-Biruni made precisely this discovery during the 11th century (see pages 102 and 103), fully 700 years prior to Desmarest.
		Ibn an-Nafs and Ibn al-Quff (13th century) provided full documentation that the blood circulates and correctly described the physiology of the heart and the function of its valves 300 years before Harvey.
	moonsighting.com /inventions.html (3658 words)

	Eternal Egypt - Type: Historian
		Al-Hassan Ibn Zolaq was born in the age of the Ikhshidid state.
		The family to which Ibn Yunus belonged played an important role in the cultural life of Islamic Egypt, between the third and fifth centuries AH.
		Ibn Yunus Al-Muarekh was the grandson of a friend of Al-Imam Al-Shafii, and a narrator of the Hadith of the Prophet.
	www.eternalegypt.org /EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?ee_website_action_key=action.perform.ent_type.search&language_id=1&trait_item_id=84034&search_subtypes=yes (752 words)

	Ibn Kathir: Story of Daniel (pbuh)
		Yunus Ibn Bakeer reported that Muhammad Ibn Ishaaq reported that Abu Khalid Ibn Dinar reported that Abul Aa'lia said: "When Tastar was invaded, we found, in the treasure house of Al-Harmazan, a bed on which lay a dead man, with a holy script at his bedside.
		Anas Ibn Malik, with a good citation, said that his nose was an arm's stretch long (two feet), on which basis he is thought to be an ancient prophet from before this period.
		Ibn Abu Dunya also reported, by a chain of citations, that a ring was seen on the hand of Ibn Abu Barda Ibn Abu Musa.
	www.islamawareness.net /Prophets/daniel.html (754 words)

	USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts
		Ibn Juraij reports from Ibn Tawus on the authority of his father that if a sick person becomes unconscious, he is not to make up the prayers he missed.
		Hamad ibn Salamah relates from Yunus ibn 'Ubaid that both al-Hassan al-Basri and Muhammad ibn Sireen said that a person who falls unconscious is not to make up the prayers he may miss.
		Ibn Hazm further says: "Concerning our statement that the one who intentionally leaves a salah until its time expires is to repent to Allah, the Exalted, ask for His forgiveness, pray an increased number of nawafil, and do good deeds.
	www.usc.edu /dept/MSA/law/fiqhussunnah/fus2_33.html (1116 words)

	Geometry.Net - Scientists: Ibn Yunus Abu'l-hasan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		abu'lhasan Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn yunus University of St.Andrews, Scotland Biographicalsketch of this Egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.
		Ibn Firnas Abul Qasim Ibn Firnas; Spanish-Arab humanitarian, technologist, chemist; believed by many to be the first man in history to make a scientific attempt at flying (?-c.
		A.D. Ibn Yunus Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Sadafi; Egyptian astronomer, mathematician and astrologer (950-1009).
	www.889.com /scientists/ibn_yunus_abu'l-hasan.php (2746 words)

	References for Yunus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		D A King and W Hartner, Ibn Yunus and the meridian degree, Centaurus 26 (2-3) (1982/83), 217-218.
		D A King, Ibn Yunus and the pendulum : a history of errors, Arch.
		D A King, A double-argument table for the lunar equation attributed to Ibn Yunus, Centaurus 18 (1973/74), 129-146.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /%7ehistory/Printref/Yunus.html (154 words)

	Introduction to Islam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thirdly there is the field of optics in which the Islamic sciences produced in Ibn al-Haytham (the Latin Alhazen) who lived in the 11th century, the greatest student of optics between Ptolemy and Witelo.
		Ibn al-Haytham's main work on optics, the Kitab al-manazir, was also well known in the West as Thesaurus opticus.
		Ibn al-Haytham solved many optical problems, one of which is named after him, studied the property of lenses, discovered the Camera Obscura, explained correctly the process of vision, studied the structure of the eye, and explained for the first time why the sun and the moon appear larger on the horizon.
	www.iad.org /Islam/math.html (1062 words)

	Scientific Inventions
		The Pendulum was invented by Ibn Yunus, a genius in science who lived in the reign of Aziz Billah and Hakim bi-Amr-illah, the Fatimid monarchs of Egypt.
		It was built in 1190 A.D., in the Spanish town of Seville under the supervision of the celebrated Mathematician, Jabir Ibn Afiah.
		The contagious character of the plague and its remedies were discovered by Ibn Katina, a Moorish Physician.
	www.netmuslims.com /info/inventions.html (1158 words)

	Abu Hanifa vs. "Salafis"
		Ibn `Isa ibn al-Tabba` said: I heard Rawh ibn `Ubada say: "I was with Ibn Jurayj in the year 150 when the news of Abu Hanifa's death reached him.
		Ibn `Abd al-Hadi al-Hanbali wrote a large volume still unpublished on merits of Abu Hanifa entitled Tanwir al-sahifa bi manaqib al-imam Abi Hanifa in which he said: "Among those who show fanaticism against Abu Hanifa is al-Daraqutni." It is quoted in Ibn `Abidin's Hashiyat radd al-muhtar (1:37).
		59, 66, 69), and the unpublished monograph Ibda' wujuh al-ta`addi fi kamil ibn `Adi.
	www.geocities.com /~abdulwahid/imam_vs_munafiq.html (9174 words)

	The Buhayra Monk Incident
		Yunus reported it from Abu Bakr who reported it from his father, Abu Musa Asha`ri; but it is not certain that he ever heard some tradition from his father.
		When Yunus Ibn Ishaq was mentioned there, he said: He was negligent and careless; and these were his natural and innate characteristics.
		Muhammad Ibn `Umar said: If it is like this, and it is a fact that Abu Bakr died in the year 13 [AH], when he was a ‘boy’ of 63 years; thus, between this and between that which was reported to us about Bilal, [there is a gap of] seven years.
	www.renaissance.com.pk /mjucri98.html (6097 words)

	IslamicAwakening.Com: Ibn al-Jawzi: A Lifetime of Da'wah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ibn al-Jawzi was taken to Wasit in the middle of the night by Rukn himself and house arrested.
		Ibn al-Jawzi was, in his early youth, influenced by abstentious Sufism, which left him with illness for several years, until he decided to abandon it.
		Ibn al-Jawzi then wonderfully summarises the underlying cause of deviancy amongst the so-called ‘Muslim philosophers’ and the ‘Muslim monks’, saying: “Because the philosophers were close in time to the advent of our Shari’ah, as were the monks; some of our co-religionists stretched out their hands for the former, while the others for the latter.
	www.as-sahwah.com /viewarticle.php?articleID=1277& (8004 words)

	History of Islamic Science 1
		The intellectual relaxation which characterized the second half of the seventh century and the first half of the eighth was followed by a period of renewed activity which was entirely due to Muslim initiatives, that is why this period gave an Arabic name marking the beginning of Muslim science.
		Ya'qub ibn Tariq and Muhammad, son of Ibrahim al-Fazari, are the first to be mentioned in connection with Hindu mathematics: Ya'qab met at the court of al-Mansur, a Hindu astronomer called Kankah (?), who acquainted him with the Siddhanta, and Muhammad was ordered to translate it.
		The most famous alchemist of Islam, Jabir Ibn Haiyan, seems to have had a good experimental knowledge of a number chemical facts; he was also an able theoretician.
	www.levity.com /alchemy/islam12.html (1842 words)

	USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts
		Ibn al-Haytham's main work on optics, the Kitah al-manazir, was also well known in the West as Thesaurus opticus.
		Ibn al-Haytham solved many optical problems, one of which is named after him, studied the property of lenses, discovered the camera obscura, explained correctly the process of vision, studied the structure of the eye, and explained for the first time why the sun and the moon appear larger on the horizon.
		Ibn Sina discovered many drugs and identified and treated several ailments such as meningitis but his greatest contribution was in the philosophy of medicine.
	www.usc.edu /dept/MSA/introduction/woi_knowledge.html (4100 words)

	Malikischolars
		It is said to be Abu Salama ibn 'Abdu'r-Rahman ibn 'Awf, Salim ibn 'Abdullah or Abu Bakr ibn 'Abdu'r-Rahman.
		This indicates Shaykh Ibn Zayd, Ibn al-Qabisi, Ibn al-Lubbad, al-Baji, al-Lakhmi, Ibn Mihraz, Ibn 'Abdu'l-Barr, Ibn Rushd, Ibn al-'Arabi, Qadi Sanad, al-Makhzumi, Ibn Shiblun and Ibn Sha'ban.
		The first generation of the later scholars in the usage of the school is Ibn Abi Zayd and then those after it.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/abewley/malikis.html (706 words)

	Quotations From Famous Historians of Science
		It was equipped with a library, one of the translators there was Hunayn Ibn Ishaq (809-77) a particularly gifted philosopher and physician of wide erudition, the dominating figure of this century of translators.
		Ibn Haytham's writings reveal his fine development of the experimental faculty.
		His tables of corresponding angles of incidence and refraction of light passing from one medium to another show how closely he had approached discovering the law of constancy of ratio of sines, later attributed to snell.
	www.cyberistan.org /islamic/Introl1.html (2103 words)

	Geometry.Net - Scientists: Ibn Yunus Abu'l-hasan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Section 51 (of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun) On the matter of the Fatimi (The Mahdi) and the position people take concerning him, removing the veil from all of that.
		Ibn Yunus, cuyo nombre completo es Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus al-Sadafi, tuvo una familia de estudiantes.
		Al-Sabi Thabit ibn Qurra al-Harrani (826-901) revised many of the translated Greek works and was one of the first reformers of Ptolemy's system.
	www.889.com /detail/scientists/ibn_yunus_abu'l-hasan.html (2786 words)

	Four Centuries of Influence of Iraqî Shî‘ism on Pre-Safavid Iran
		An ijazah by Shaykh Hasan ibn Husayn Duryastī (settled at Kashan) indicates that he had the ijazah to narrate the Shaykh’s MabsuT through ‘Ubayd Allah, from his father, from Shaykh Tusī, and the same chain of transmission is given for an Arab scholar named Shaykh Murshid al-Dīn Abu al-Husayn ‘Ali ibn Husayn Surawī.
		[49] ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd al-Samad and his sons and grandsons are mentioned in many chains of authorities (isnad) which we shall mention later on.
		Muhammad ibn ‘Ali Fattal Nayshaburī, author of the book Rawdat al-wa‘izīn and a Qur’anic commentary; the latter work is mentioned repeatedly by ‘Abd al-Jalil along with other outstanding Shī‘ī exegeses such as the Tibyan and the Majma‘ al-Bayan.
	www.al-islam.org /mot/iraqishiism/2.htm (1836 words)

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