Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi

Abu Abdallah Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad Ibn Ghazi al-'Utmani al-Miknasi (Arabic: ابن غازي المكناسي) (1437–1513) was a Moroccan scholar in the field of history, Islamic law, Arabic philology and mathematics. He was born in Meknes from Banu Uthman, a clan in the Berber kutama tribe,^[1] but spent his life in Fez.^[2] Ibn Ghazi wrote a three-volume history of Meknes and a commentary to the treatise of Ibn al-Banna, Munyat al-hussab. Ibn Ghazi wrote another treatise based on his commentary titled Bughyat al-tulab fi sharh munyat al-hussab ("The desire of students for an explanation of the calculator's craving"). He included sections on arithmetic and algebraic methods. He is also the author of Kulliyat, a short work on legal questions and judgements in the Maliki madhab.^[3]

Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi
Personal
Born	Abu Abdallah Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Muhammad Ibn Ghazi al-'Utmani al-Miknasi 1437 Meknes, Morocco
Died	1513 Fez, Morocco
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Maliki
Main interest(s)	History, Islamic law, Arabic philology, Mathematics
Notable work(s)	Three-volume history of Meknes Commentary on Ibn al-Banna's treatise, Munyat al-hussab Bughyat al-tulab fi sharh munyat al-hussab Kulliyat

References

1. Lévi-Provençal, Evariste (1922). Les historiens des Chorfa; essai sur la littérature historique et biographique au Maroc du XVIe au XXe siècle. Paris E. Larose. p. 225.
2. Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Les Historiens du Chorfa, Essai sur la littérature historique et biographique au Maroc, du XVIe au XXe siècle, (1922), pp. 224–30
3. E. Levi-Provencal, Chorfa, p. 231

Further reading

• Al-Hamza MH, Ibn Ghazi al-Fasi al-Miknasi and his treatise “The purpose of studying in explaining the desire of calculators" . Academic year-long conference IHST Academy of Sciences. M. 2005. pp. 299–301.