Šarḥ al-Taḏkiraẗ (Fatḥ Allāh al-Širwānī)

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Sharḥ al-Tadhkirah (Fatḥ Allāh al-Shirwānī)

Title (arabic)	شرح التذكرة
Title (translit)	Sharḥ al-Tadhkirah (Fatḥ Allāh al-Shirwānī)
Alias	Sharḥ al-Tadhkira (Shirwani) شرح التذكرة في علم الهيئة
Author	Fatḥ Allāh ibn Abū Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ibrāhīm al-Shābarānī al-Shirwānī al-Shamāhī
Created	879H/1475J
Language	Arabic
Subject	Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Text type	Second-order composition (Commentary) [sharh]
Commentary on	al-Tadhkirah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah
Incipit	الحمد لله الذي هيّأ هيئة العالم بحكمته وشيّأ زمرتنا(؟) على التفكّر فيها بشيئته
Notes	Shirwānī composed his Šarḥ al-Tadhkira in 879/1475, after having already studied those of Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (composed 711/1311) and Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī (composed 811/1409).
ismi_id	2934

Manuscript Witnesses

2 witnesses:

Sharḥ al-Tadhkirah (Fatḥ Allāh al-Shirwānī)_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Damad Ibrahim Paşa_847

Sharḥ al-Tadhkirah (Fatḥ Allāh al-Shirwānī)_Istanbul_Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi_Ahmet III_3314

Literature References

Trigg, Scott G. 2016. “From Samarqand to Istanbul: Astronomy and Scientific Education in the Commentaries of Fatḥallāh Al-Shirwānī”. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison: University of Wisconsin.

Fazlıoğlu, İhsan. 2008. “The Samarqand Mathematical-Astronomical School: A Basis for Ottoman Philosophy and Science”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 14: 3-68.

Fazlıoğlu provides a critical text (Arabic, pp. 40-46), an English translation (46-53), and an analysis related to the text (49-50) of Shirwānī’s description of a lecture at the Samarqand madrasa and his license/diploma to teach from Qadizade (authorized middle of Rabīʿ al-ākhir in the year 844) from Shirwānī’s Sharḥ al-Tadhkira.

Fazlıoğlu, İhsan. 2007. “Shirwānī: Fatḥallāh Ibn Abū Yazīd Ibn ʿAbd al‐ʿAzīz Ibn Ibrāhīm al‐Shābarānī al‐Shirwānī al‐Shamāhī”. In The Biographical Encyclopedia Of Astronomers, ed. Thomas Hockey, 2:1055-56. New York: Springer-Verlag.

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. 292 (no. 868), A1.

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).

Vol. 1, p. 44, 2.

Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub waʾl-funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum a Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 2, p. 269.