Author
Abū al-Barakat Hibat Allāh
Publication Date
17th century (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Delhi Arabic 1919, ff 1v-3v
Record ID
vdc_100052733313.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
17th century (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Treatise on astronomy by Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ([ibn] ‘Alī) ibn Malkā al-Baghdādī al-Baladī reg. 1105-18).
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-6):
After praising God and praising Him as He deserves and deserves, the Sultan
In which God Almighty brought together the honor that was dispersed among the great kings and their mention
The soul, the height of the mind, the satisfaction of the mind, the originality of the opinion, and kindles the acumen
And the morals of courage, generosity, justice, jurisprudence, and carrying out duties
The king...
Ends (f. 3v, lines 10-14):
... That is a humiliating and conclusive reason
The correct and positive meaning is not specific to the sky, but rather to what the sun sets over
From the regions, this is the answer to the question and the completeness of the problem
Praise be to the Grantor of reason, and peace and blessings be upon the most honorable of creation, Muhammad and his family
Everyone...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 3v, lines 14-16):
...The message was completed about the reason for the appearance of the planets at night and their disappearance during the day
By Abu Al-Barakat Al-Baghdadi Sahar
Mu'tabar's book.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Translation:
Wiedemann, Eilhard, 'Ueber den Grund, aus dem die Sterne bei Nacht sichtbar und bei Tage verborgen sind, von Hibat Allâh Ibn Malkâ al Jehûdî al Baghdâdî', in
Jahrbuch für Photographie und Reproduktionstechnik für das Jahr 1909
(1909) pp. 49-54
Study:
Madelung, Wilferd, 'Abu'l-Barakat Bagdadi', in
Encyclopædia Iranica
, I/3, pp. 266-68, <http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abul-barakat-al-bagdadi-awhad-al-zaman-hebatallah-b> (accessed on 31 January 2014)
Pines, Shlomo, 'Abu ’l-Barakāt', in
Encyclopaedia of Islam
, Second Edition, Edited by P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel and W.P. Heinrichs, <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0167> (accessed on 19 October 2016)
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works
(7th-19th c.), (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no, 485, p. 184
