---
title: "Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Ibn Ghazi al-Miknasi"
aliases: ["Muhammad Ibn Ghazi al-Uthmani al-Miknasi","Muhammad ibn Gazi","Ibn Ghazi"]
first_seen: "2026-08-13T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi","lattice multiplication","al-Hawari","Talkhis amal al-hisab"]
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
---


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