Abū Kāmil, Shujāʿ b. Aslam b. Muḥammad b. Shujāʿ, known as al-Ḥāsib al-Miṣrī, was a mathematician of the 3rd/9th and 4th/10th centuries, one of the last figures of the old school of algebra (al-jabr) in the history of Islamic mathematics and the most prominent algebraist after al-Kh^wārazmī (Ibn al-Nadīm, 339; Ibn Khaldūn, 3/1129; Sezgin, 5/277). He held teaching sessions, and for a time served in the Egyptian maritime industry (al-Qifṭī, 211; Anbuba, ‘L'Algèbre’, 79; idem, xvii–xviii). Abū Kāmil is also mentioned as one of the transmitters of ḥadīth…