Author
Narrated by Abu al-Hasan Khushar ibn Labban Bashahri al-Jil
Publication Date
18 Shawwal 1061 (AH, Hijri)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IO Islamic 1514, ff 14v-32v
Record ID
vdc_100145983041.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
18 Shawwal 1061 (AH, Hijri)
Notes
Astrological treatise also known as
Kitāb al-mudkhal fī ṣināʿat aḥkām al-nujūm
(The Book of Introduction to the Making of Star Rulings) and
Mujmal al-uṣūl fī aḥkām al-nuj
ūm
(Majmal al-Usul fi Ahkam al-Najm) in four chapters (articles), composed in the late 10th century by Kiyā Abū al-Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al-Jīlī (Kia Abu al-Hasan Kushyar ibn Laban Bāshahrī al-Jīlī, fl.
ca
961).
The present copy was completed on 18 Shawwāl 1061/4 October 1651 by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Bīk Munajjim, 'the astronomer' (Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Hasan Bey Mine, see
colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
, f. 32v, lines 5-9, transcribed below). Ff. 23 and 26 appear to have been bound into the volume at a later date.
Contents:
Chapter One: Introduction and principles (the first article on the introduction and principles, ff. 14v-18v);
Chapter Two: Judgement on world affairs (ff. 18v-24v);
Chapter Three: Judgment on births and the revolution of their years (The Third Article on Judgment on Births and Changing Their Years, ff. 24v-31r);
Chapter Four: Making elections [of propitious moments] (Fourth article on making elections, ff. 31r-32v).
Begins (f. 14v, lines 1-3):
Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, blessings be upon His Prophet and all his family. As for the venerable Kiya, Abu Al-Hasan Kushyar bin Laban bin
Bashahri bin Al-Jili, I have collected in this book the principles of making rulings, their sentences, and the way to dispose of them and use them, what I thought.
Sufficient in its meaning is enriching in most cases...
Ends (f. 32v, lines 2-5):
...and we conclude the fourth article
With this chapter and the book with this article, the keys to the unseen are hidden with him, and the secret of the keys to the unseen. Praise be to God, His bounties are sufficient, and blessings be upon Muhammad and his family. I copied it from Al-Hakim’s copy.
The perfect and virtuous Plato II Galen of the temporal, called the sage of Inayatullah
Al-Isfahani...
Colophon
Section at the end of a manuscript text.
(f. 32v, lines 5-9):
...The book was completed with the success of King Wahhab in
The date of Wednesday the eighteenth of the month of Shawwal is sealed
With goodness and prosperity in the year 1061, one thousand sixty-one years later
Hijri Prophet, may the best prayers and greetings be upon him
In the hands of the least of the servants, Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad bin Hassan Bey, is a mine
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Ethé, Hermann,
Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
, 2 vols (Oxford: 1903-37), vol. 2, no. 2256, 3, p. 1232
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition:
Kūshyār ibn Labbān,
Sih risālah az Kūshyār Gīlānī
, ed. and trans. by Muḥammad Bāqirī (Tihrān: Markaz-i Pizhūhishī-i Mīrās̲-i Maktūb, 2014)
Edition and translation:
Kūshyār ibn Labbān,
Kitāb al-Mudkhal fī ṣināʿat aḥkām al-nujūm (Introduction to Astrology)
, ed. and trans. by Michio Yano (Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1997)
Studies:
Brockelmann, Carl,
History of the Arabic Written Tradition: Volume 1
, trans. by Joep Lameer, Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section One, The Near and Middle East; volume 117/1 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2016), p. 220
Boris A. Rosenfeld and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.)
(Istanbul, 2003), pp. 118–19
Kūshyār ibn Labbān,
Ptolemaic Tradition and Islamic Innovation: The Astronomical Tables of Kūshyār Ibn Labbān Jīlī
, ed. and trans. by Benno van Dalen (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021)
Bagheri, Mohammad, 'Ibn Labbān, Kūshyār: Kiyā Abū al‐Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al‐Jīlī (Gīlānī)', in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 560-61
