Abū l-Ṣalt Umayya b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū l-Ṣalt Umayya b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Abī l-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī (460-529/1068-1134), known in Latin sources as Albuzale, was a polymath of al-Andalus who wrote works on astronomy, medicine, philosophy, music, history, and poetry. He was born in Denia (Dāniya), where he studied under al-Waqqashī (408-89/1017-96), a well known poet, mathematician, historian, philosopher, grammarian, lexicographer, jurist, and traditionist who had emigrated fromToledo. Later on, it seems that Abū l-Ṣalt also studied in Seville, before leaving al-