Author
Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sanbāṭī
Publication Date
ca 1650-1750 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Add MS 9598, ff 123v-138v
Record ID
vdc_100157836372.0x000001
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
ca 1650-1750 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
A commentary by Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Sanbāṭī (Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati, fl. 16th century) on the
Treatise on the Use of the Sine Quadrant
(The treatise on working with the answerable quarter) in twenty chapters (Chapter) by Badr al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Shāfi‘ī al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī (Badr al-Din Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shafi’i al-Masri al-Dimashqi, b. 1423, d. 1490), known as Sibṭ al-Māridīnī (Tribe of the Mardini), timekeeper (timekeeper) of the al-Azhar Mosque at Cairo.
Another copy of this text is found on ff. 4v-17r of the present volume. F.135 is a replacement. The text is preceded by a page of notes (f. 123r).
Beginnings (f. 123v, lines 2-6):
Then the poor servant says to God Almighty, Ahmad ibn Ahmad ibn Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati al-Shafi’i
This is a nice clarification of the message placed in the work with the answered quarter composed
Sheikh Badr Al-Din Al-Mardini, may God Almighty have mercy on him, I put it on her when you read this
Our sheikh, the scholar and mufti, Mr. Sharif Muhammad bin Abi Al-Khair Al-Armouni Al-Maliki, may God bless him and grant him peace
May God save him...
Ends (f. 138v, lines 15-18):
...So if it is said correctly when that planet is in the middle and passes through its degrees
He decided that, because it is the rising of dawn, and God Almighty knows, there is no Lord other than Him and there is no deity other than Him
There is no power nor strength except in God, the Most High, the Great, and may God’s blessings and peace be upon our Master Muhammad and his family and companions, and may God grant him peace and praise.
To God, Lord of the worlds
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Bulma Yardımcıları
Cureton, William and Charles Rieu,
Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens
(London: The British Museum, 1846-71), Item 407, ix, p. 193
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.),
(Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), pp. 293-98 (no. 873), A7 or A8, p. 295 [on Sibṭ al-Māridīnī] and 332-33 (no. 1002), A1 [on al-Sanbāṭī]
De Young, Gregg, 'Sibṭ al‐Māridīnī: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr [Shams] al‐Dīn al‐Miṣrī al‐Dimashqī' in
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 1058
