Falak al-saʻādat

Name: Falak al-saʻādat
Author: I'tiz̤ād al-Salṭanah, Ali Qulī Mirzā, -1880 or 1881

Title	Falak al-saʻādat
Author	I'tiz̤ād al-Salṭanah, Ali Qulī Mirzā, -1880 or 1881
Publication Date:	1861
Publication Place	Tehran - Tehran : Dār al-ṭabāʻah-ʼi Muḥammad Bāqir Tihrānī
Subject	Astrology, Iranian, Celestial mechanics, Gravity, Mechanics, Physics, Solar system
Type	kitap
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	University of Alabama at Birmingham Libraries
Library Asset ID	OCLC: 1036218020
Record ID	cdi_lindahall_digitalcollections_999199513405961
Library Location	Available Online
Date	1861
Notes	This is the first printed (lithographed) book in Persian to introduce Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Western modern heliocentrism. The book is an attack on astrology as a pseudo-science and dismissal of belief in the auspicious or ominous influences of celestial bodies. Eʿteżād-al-Salṭana’s criticism of astrology followed the model of such classical Islamic scholars as Bīrūnī, Fārābī, and Avicenna, but Eʿteżād-al-Salṭana also discussed modern astronomical discoveries at length and made what was probably the first published assault in Persian on the still widely accepted Ptolemaic theory. Publication of Falak al-saʿādat had adverse repercussions in conservative scholarly circles and gave rise to some criticism to which the author responded. (From Abbas Amanat, Encyclopaedia Iranica). Digitized original manuscript available online through Malek National Library and Museum. Daša Pahor Antiquariat; For more information, see Kamran Arjomand. The Emergence of Scientific Modernity in Iran: Controversies Surrounding Astrology and Modern Astronomy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. In: Iranian Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1/2 (Winter – Spring, 1997), pp. 5-24; Abbas Amanat, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VIII, Fasc. 6, pp. 669-672; A. Reza Arasteh, Education and Social Awakening in Iran, 1962; M. Tavakoli-Targhi, Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography, 2001; Saeed Honarmand, The Impact of the Modernity Discourse on Persian Fiction. Dissertation, 2011; Sheldon Pollock, Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800, 2011, p. 262. LHL copy bound in blue calf.

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Falak al-saʻādat

Author I'tiz̤ād al-Salṭanah, Ali Qulī Mirzā, -1880 or 1881

Publication Date 1861

Publication Place Tehran - Tehran : Dār al-ṭabāʻah-ʼi Muḥammad Bāqir Tihrānī

Subject Astrology, Iranian, Celestial mechanics, Gravity, Mechanics, Physics, Solar system

Type kitap

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library University of Alabama at Birmingham Libraries

Library Asset ID OCLC: 1036218020

Record ID cdi_lindahall_digitalcollections_999199513405961

Library Location Available Online

Date 1861

Notes This is the first printed (lithographed) book in Persian to introduce Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation and Western modern heliocentrism. The book is an attack on astrology as a pseudo-science and dismissal of belief in the auspicious or ominous influences of celestial bodies. Eʿteżād-al-Salṭana’s criticism of astrology followed the model of such classical Islamic scholars as Bīrūnī, Fārābī, and Avicenna, but Eʿteżād-al-Salṭana also discussed modern astronomical discoveries at length and made what was probably the first published assault in Persian on the still widely accepted Ptolemaic theory. Publication of Falak al-saʿādat had adverse repercussions in conservative scholarly circles and gave rise to some criticism to which the author responded. (From Abbas Amanat, Encyclopaedia Iranica). Digitized original manuscript available online through Malek National Library and Museum. Daša Pahor Antiquariat; For more information, see Kamran Arjomand. The Emergence of Scientific Modernity in Iran: Controversies Surrounding Astrology and Modern Astronomy in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. In: Iranian Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1/2 (Winter – Spring, 1997), pp. 5-24; Abbas Amanat, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VIII, Fasc. 6, pp. 669-672; A. Reza Arasteh, Education and Social Awakening in Iran, 1962; M. Tavakoli-Targhi, Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography, 2001; Saeed Honarmand, The Impact of the Modernity Discourse on Persian Fiction. Dissertation, 2011; Sheldon Pollock, Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500–1800, 2011, p. 262. LHL copy bound in blue calf.