Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi

Maghrebi mathematician (ca. 1437–1513) two commentarial generations removed from Ibn al-Banna, author of The Craving of the Calculators (a commentary on Ibn al-Banna's Talkhīṣ aʿmāl al-ḥisāb) and then The Desire of the Students for an Explanation of the Calculator's Craving (his own commentary on that commentary). Matters to this vault as the actual named author whose manuscript carries the earliest gelosia-grid multiplication examples located in this tradition — per Swetz/MAA's captioned World Digital Library/Library of Congress images — roughly two centuries after Ibn al-Banna's own Talkhīṣ, making him a stronger candidate than Ibn al-Banna himself for "first Arabic attestation" of the method. See claim-earliest-gelosia-manuscript-evidence-is-ibn-ghazis-commentary.

References

• claim-earliest-gelosia-manuscript-evidence-is-ibn-ghazis-commentary
• claim-abdeljaouad-oaks-talkhis-study-omits-lattice-gelosia-shabakh
• claim-lattice-multiplication-india-maghreb-italy-transmission-chain
• question-verify-lattice-multiplication-maghreb-india-primary
• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-13-do-tier-12-sources-confirm-that-ibn-al.md