Abū Marwān Ḥayyān ibn Khalaf ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ḥayyān al-Qurṭubī
Date of Birth: 987-88
Place of Birth: Cordova
Date of Death: 1076
Place of Death: Cordova
Biography
Few details about the life of Ibn Ḥayyān are known. His father was a secretary in the time of the vizier al-Manṣūr (d. 1002), and was known as an expert in mathematics and geometry (al-misāḥa). Thus, Ibn Ḥayyān would have grown up in a cultivated environment and received a thorough educ…