Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn

İsim	Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn
Basım Tarihi:	1883
Konu	Astrology, Arab, Astronomy, Arab, Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)
Tür	Belge
Dil	Arapça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Evet
Kütüphane:	Harvard Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	LCCN: 2008401927, LCCallNum: QB23 .M67 1882
Kayıt Numarası	TN_cdi_loca_primary_2008401927
Lokasyon	ONLINE ACCESS
Tarih	1883
Notlar	The first four pages are Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Miṣrī's poem, Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn, a poem on astronomy and astrology. It covers the sun, the moon, the planets, the constellations, the signs of the Zodiac and the astrological characteristics of each day of the week. On fol. 3a, the author says that he completed this poem on 18 Rabīʻ al-awwal 1298 (17 February 1881). The author's own commentary (Tuḥfat al-murīdīn bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn) on the poem begins on leaf 3, verso, line 10. While in the West, particularly in modern times, poetry and science tend to differ sharply in their approach to describing the world, this is not the case in the Arabic-speaking world, where the use of the literary form of the poetical treatise has produced remarkable works in a variety disciplines, including mathematics, astronomy, alchemy, and astrology. The present manuscript shows that the tradition of the Arabic poetical treatise was not confined to the Middle Ages but was still alive in the 19th century. Aḥmad ibn Qāsim Al-Miṣrī (1814-1856) is the author of both the poetical stanzas found in the first three folios of the manuscript and of the prose commentary on the poem that follows. The subject of the treatise straddles astrology and astronomy, as it proceeds from the description of the heavenly bodies to a treatment of the zodiacal signs and their influences. This elegant manuscript is enriched by rubricated headings that lead the reader through the paragraphs of the poem and through the chapters of the prose commentary, which deal with the Arabic and Coptic reckoning of months, the zodiacal signs and their paths in the heavens, the seven planets known at the time, and the hours of sunrise and sunset. World Digital Library.
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Başlık	Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn

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Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn

Basım Tarihi 1883

Konu Astrology, Arab, Astronomy, Arab, Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Tür Belge

Dil Arapça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Evet

Kütüphane Harvard Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası LCCN: 2008401927, LCCallNum: QB23 .M67 1882

Kayıt Numarası TN_cdi_loca_primary_2008401927

Lokasyon ONLINE ACCESS

Tarih 1883

Notlar The first four pages are Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Miṣrī's poem, Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn, a poem on astronomy and astrology. It covers the sun, the moon, the planets, the constellations, the signs of the Zodiac and the astrological characteristics of each day of the week. On fol. 3a, the author says that he completed this poem on 18 Rabīʻ al-awwal 1298 (17 February 1881). The author's own commentary (Tuḥfat al-murīdīn bi-sharḥ Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn) on the poem begins on leaf 3, verso, line 10. While in the West, particularly in modern times, poetry and science tend to differ sharply in their approach to describing the world, this is not the case in the Arabic-speaking world, where the use of the literary form of the poetical treatise has produced remarkable works in a variety disciplines, including mathematics, astronomy, alchemy, and astrology. The present manuscript shows that the tradition of the Arabic poetical treatise was not confined to the Middle Ages but was still alive in the 19th century. Aḥmad ibn Qāsim Al-Miṣrī (1814-1856) is the author of both the poetical stanzas found in the first three folios of the manuscript and of the prose commentary on the poem that follows. The subject of the treatise straddles astrology and astronomy, as it proceeds from the description of the heavenly bodies to a treatment of the zodiacal signs and their influences. This elegant manuscript is enriched by rubricated headings that lead the reader through the paragraphs of the poem and through the chapters of the prose commentary, which deal with the Arabic and Coptic reckoning of months, the zodiacal signs and their paths in the heavens, the seven planets known at the time, and the hours of sunrise and sunset. World Digital Library.

Kaynak Library of Congress Digital Collections: All Content

Başlık Wasīlat al-mubtadiʼīn li-ʻilm ghurrat al-shuhūr wa-al-sinīn