Iʿlām al-ʿibād fī aʿlām al-bilād [T]

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Iʿlām al-ʿibād fī aʿlām al-bilād [T]

Title (arabic)	إعلام العباد في أعلام البلاد
Title (translit)	Iʿlām al-ʿibād fī aʿlām al-bilād [T]
Alias	Risālah-i aqālīm al-sabʿaẗ Risālaẗ fī bayān taʿrīf al-masāfāt bayn bilād al-aqālīm al-sabʿaẗ Iʿlām al-ʿibād fī aʿlām al-bilād fī juġrāfiyā إعلام العباد في أعلام البلاد في جغرافيا
Author	Muṣṭafá ibn ʿAlī al-Qusṭanṭīnī al-Rūmī al-Ḥanafī al-Muwaqqit
Created	931H/1525J
Language	Turkish (Ottoman pre-1839)
Subject	Geography: Practical
Other versions	Iʿlām al-ʿibād bi-ʿilm al-abʿād fī jughrāfīyā
Dedicated to	al-Sulṭān Sulaymān ibn Selīm ibn Bāyazīd (Qānūnī)
Notes	This work on mathematical geography, written in Turkish in 931/1525 and presented to Sultan Süleymān I, contains astronomical and geographical information, including distances of Istanbul of 100 major cities stretching from China to Morocco, their longitudes and latitudes, their qiblas (directions toward Mecca), and their shortest and longest days.
ismi_id	278090

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:

Iʿlām al-ʿibād fī aʿlām al-bilād [T]_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Hacı Mahmud Efendi_Suleymaiye Manuscript Library

Literature References

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. 329 (no. 990), A17, G2.

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin. 1997. Osmanlı Astronomi Literatürü Tarihi [History of Astronomy Literature During the Ottoman Period]. Osmanlı Bilim Tarihi literatürü. Istanbul: İslâm Tarih, Sanat ve Kültür Araştırma Merkezi (IRCICA).

Pp. 162-3 (no. 82), 3.