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Kitāb al-āthār al-mukhayyalah fī al-jaww al-ḥādithah ʿan al-māʾī wa-hiya al-hālah wa-al-qaws wa-al-ḍabāb

Title (arabic)

كتاب الآثار المخيّلة في الجوّ الحادثة عن المائي وهي الهالة والقوس والضباب

Title (translit)

Kitāb al-āthār al-mukhayyalah fī al-jaww al-ḥādithah ʿan al-māʾī wa-hiya al-hālah wa-al-qaws wa-al-ḍabāb

Alias

Kitāb al-āṯār al-muḫayyalaẗ fī al-jaww al-ḥādiṯaẗ ʿan al-māʾī wa-hiya al-hālaẗ wa-al-qaws wa-al-ḍabāb

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

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

Notes

A work on the atmospheric reflections caused by vapours, which take the form of halos, rainbows, mock suns and rods.

ismi_id

150002

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P. 99 (no. 266), Mt1.

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

P. 265.

Kohlberg, Etan. 1992. A Medieval Muslim Scholar At Work: Ibn Ṭāwūs & His Library. Islamic Philosophy, Theology, And Science: Texts And Studies. Vol. 12. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 129 (no. 76).