Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn Munim al-Abdari, was a mathematician, originally from Dénia in Andalusia, he lived and taught in Marrakesh, a major city of which location, where he was known as one of the best scholars in geometry and number theory
Ahmad ibn Munim al-Abdari Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn Munim al-Abdari (died 1228) was a mathematician, originally from Dénia in Andalusia. He lived and taught in Marrakesh where he was known as one of the best scholars in geometry and number theory. He is often confused with Muhammad ibn 'Abd al Mun'im, a different mathematician who worked in the court of Roger II of Sicily.
Arshad al-Umari Arshad Pasha al-Umari (1888–1978) (Arabic: أرشد العمري‎ ‎ ) was born in Mosul, Iraq on April 8, 1888, when his father was Mayor of Mosul. He obtained his high school degree in 1904 when he was 16 years old. After finishing high school at Mosul he left for Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to complete his studies. He did the trip by horses via Aleppo to the port of Alexandretta on the Mediterranean Sea. Such a trip in those days took about 40 days. From Alexandretta he took the steamer to Istanbul where he was admitted to the Architectural Division of the Royal Engineering College. The teaching staff of the college were professors from Germany, Belgium and Austria.