Author
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shāṭir
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 1r-4r
Record ID
vdc_100157836372.0x00000a
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
ca 1650-1750 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
A treatise in ten chapters (sections) on the uses of the
astrolabe
Ancient instrument for astronomical observations.
, one of numerous works on astronomical instruments authored by ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Shāṭir (Aladdin Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Shatir, d. 1360).
Begins (f. 1r, lines 2-4):
Sheikh Al-Allamah Al-Haisoubi Al-Muqaqit said
Ibn Al-Shater, may God bless him with his mercy, Amen
Praise be to God, to whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth, and to Him is praise in the Hereafter, and He is the All-Wise, the All-Aware
Ends (f. 4r, lines 18-20):
...and more than half
The day is also twenty-four, and the height comes out of it, and that is the time of the end of the afternoon and here
The purpose has been completed, praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, and may God’s blessings and peace be upon our Master and Lord Muhammad
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, i, p. 192
Seçilmiş kaynakça
Studies:
Kennedy, E. S. and Imad Ghanem (eds.),
The Life and Work of Ibn al-Shā
ṭir, an Arab Astronomer of the Fourteenth Century
(Aleppo: Institute for History of Arabic Science, 1976)
Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu,
Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.)
(Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 750, pp. 254-56 (A7)
King, David A., 'Ibn al‐Shāṭir: ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm', in Thomas Hockey et al. (eds.),
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
, Springer Reference (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 569-570
