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TEXT

Kitāb al-miqyās

Title (arabic)

كتاب المقياس
Title (translit)

Kitāb al-miqyās
Alias

Kitab al-miqyas (ʿUmar ibn al-Farruḫān al-Ṭabarī)
Author

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn al-Farrukhān al-Ṭabarī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomy: General
Notes

A treatise on gnomons.
ismi_id

118004

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P. 31 (no. 58), A3.

Lippert, Julius, and Jamāl Al-Qifṭī. 1903. “Taʾrīḫ Al-hukamāʾ”. Leipzig: Theodor Weicher.

P. 238.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.

P. 273.