Author
Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī
Publication Date
20 Friday I 1227 (AH, Hijri)
Subject
1
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 8415, ff 247r-255v
Record ID
vdc_100070049170.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
20 Friday I 1227 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Summary of theoretical astronomy (The Science of Body) by Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (Bahā al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Husayn al-Amili; d. 1621) in which he argues that the earth rotates around its axis.
The treatise contains numerous diagrams.
The copy was completed on the evening of Friday 20 Jumādá I 1227/29 (?) May 1812 by Muḥammad Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Dawrī (Muhammad Muhsin bin Muhammad Salih bin Muhyiddin al-Dawri, see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 255v, lines 2-9 and continuation to left of
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, transcribed below).
Beginnings (f. 274, lines 2-7):
Our Lord, You did not create this in vain. Glory be to You, so save us from the torment of the Fire and make us of
Those who contemplated the creation of the heavens and the earth and the difference between night and day and prayed
On the full moon of the sky of prophecy and the center of the circle of bully, your beloved Muhammad the Prophet
Al-Mukhtar and his family are the zodiac signs of the state and the rising of the suns of guidance, the Imams
The pure, and then the poor says to God, the rich, Bahaa al-Din Muhammad
Al-Amili...
Ends (f. 255v, lines 1-4):
...If more than half passed
The day is as many hours and minutes as you have, if the length of the country increases
Or what remains for him is his amount, if it decreases, then the measure remains at this line of the zenith of the Qiblah
What the obstacles of time overlooked and the Tuareg of the two events did not explain to him
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 255v, lines 5-9):
This honorable copy was made in art
The appearance is at the hands of the poor, to God Almighty
Muhammad Mohsen bin Muhammad Saleh bin Mohi
Periodic debt
They were pardoned
Scribes's
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
continued (f. 255v, to left of main
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
):
20 Jumada al-Awwal in the year 1227 on Friday, time
Afternoon, praise be to God first and last
Outwardly and inwardly, he prayed to God
On our master Muhammad bin Abdullah
Ibn Abdul Muttalib
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Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
‘Abbās, Dalāl,
Bahā’ al-Dīn al-‘Āmilī : adīban, wa-faqīhan, wa-‘āliman
(Bayrūt: Dār al-Ḥiwār, 1995)
Hashemipour, Behnaz, '‘Āmilī: Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) pp. 42-43
