Ahmed ibn yusuf biography of christopher

Biography

Ahmed ibn Yusuf's father Yusuf ibn Ibrahim was also a mathematician.

Ahmed Ibn Yusuf was born in Baghdad and moved to Damascus in , then to Cairo, where he died in CE. He was a mathematician, like his.

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Yusuf ibn Ibrahim lived in Baghdad but moved to Damascus in about 839. After a little while he moved again, taking his son Ahmed with him, and went to live in Cairo. Although we are far from certain about the date of Ahmed's birth it is believed to have been before the family moved to Damascus.

Again it is unclear exactly when the family moved again to Cairo but as Ahmed became known as "al-Misri " meaning "the Egyptian" it is likely that he lived in Cairo from a fairly young age.

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It is worth saying a word or two about Yusuf ibn Ibrahim, Ahmed's father, since scholars have had some difficulty in deciding which texts are due to the father, which to the son, or perhaps to joint work of the two. Yusuf ibn Ibrahim is known to have been a member of a group of scholars and this must have provided a strong intellectual environment for Ahmed.

As well as a text on medicine, Yusuf is