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
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	The work, written for advanced level students, includes some information about the discussions among such scholars as Qāḍīzāde, Ulugh Beg, and other students in the Samarkand madrasa. It includes a copy of Shirwānī's license to teach (ijāza) taken from Qāḍīzāde. It includes some discussion on optics, Euclid’s Elements, and calendars as well.
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

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.

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, 2:1055-1056. New York: Springer-Verlag.

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.