Ibn al-Samḥ, Abū l-Qāsim - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Samsó, Julio
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Abū l-Qāsim Aṣbagh b. Muḥammad b. Aṣbagh Ibn al-Samḥ al-Mahrī al-Gharnāṭī (d. 426/1035), known as al-Muhandis ("the geometer"), was a mathematician and astronomer with an interest in medicine, the author of a large book on history (Ibn al-Khaṭīb, al-Iḥāṭa , 428), and a disciple of Maslama b. Aḥmad al-Majrīṭī (d. 398/1007-8). Ibn al-Samḥ was born and lived in Córdoba, although he moved to Granada during the fitna (the period of civil wars after the fall of the Caliphate in