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TEXT

Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk

Title (arabic)

كتاب تركيب الأفلاك
Title (translit)

Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk
Alias

Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk
Risālaẗ al-aflāk
Author

Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Jalīl al-Sijzī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomy: General
Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
Dedicated to

Abū Shujāʿ ʿAḍud al-Dawlah Fannā Khusraw
Notes

For a discussion of this work, see Mahdavi, Younes, 2021.
ismi_id

115848

Manuscript Witnesses

8 witnesses:
Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk_Istanbul_Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi_UNKNOWN (Beyazit)_4627
Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk_Istanbul_Istanbul University_NONE (Istanbul Univ.)_371
Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Laleli_2707
Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk_Leiden_Leiden University_Oriental_2541
Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk_Mashhad_Mashhad University_unknown (Mashhad)_7503
Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk_St. Petersburg_Institute of Oriental Studies (St. Petersburg)_Arabic Manuscripts_B 1791
Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk_St. Petersburg_Institute of Oriental Studies (St. Petersburg)_Arabic Manuscripts_B 3692
Kitāb tarkīb al-aflāk_Tehran_Majlis shūrā_ (Majlis shūrā, Tehran)_174

Literature References

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P. 469.

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers And Other Scholars Of Islamic Civilisation And Their Works (7Th-19Th C.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 113 (no. 296), A2.

Ragep, Sally. 2016. Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ: An Islamic Introduction To Ptolemaic Astronomy. New York: Springer-Verlag.

P. 58n237.

Mahdavi, Younes. 2021. “ʾAbū Saʿīd Al-Siǧzī And The “Structure Of The Orbs,” The Earliest Known Work On Hayʾa”. Arabic Sciences And Philosophy 31: 45-94.