Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Abdun al-Jabali al-Adadi (died after 976)
was a physician and mathematician from Al-Andalus.
He is the author of Risala fi al-Taksir (Treatise on Measurements), the
oldest remaining mathematical text from Al-Andalus. He travelled to the
learning centers in the East in the years after 958 C.E. He stayed in Basra and
visited al-Fustat (Old Cairo), Egypt where he was put in charge of the
hospital. Ibn Abdun studied the ideas of Abu Sulayman Sijistani (d. 990) and
according to one source he met him personally in Basra. He returned to Cordoba
in 971 C.E.. He entered the service of the Caliph al-Mustansir (died 976) and
his son Hisham II al-Mu'ayad. Ibn Abdun was the teacher of Ibn al-Kattani.
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