TEXT

Fī aḍwāʾ al-kawākib

Title (arabic)

في أضواء الكواكب

Title (translit)

Fī aḍwāʾ al-kawākib

Alias

كتاب في ضوء الكواكب
Kitāb fī ḍawʾ al-kawākib
قول في أضواء الكواكب
Qawl fī ḍawʾ al-kawākib

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

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

Notes

He composed this treatise (On the light of the stars) before his work "al-Athar alladhī [yurā] fī [wajh] al-qamar" (on the marks [seen] on the [face of the Moon].

ismi_id

147016

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English translation.

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