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TEXT

Fī samt al-qiblah

Title (arabic)

في سمت القبلة
Title (translit)

Fī samt al-qiblah
Author

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Battānī al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābīʾ
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomy: Practical
Notes

This treatise may be a misattribution. The only manuscript witness given by Rozenfeld/İhsanoğlu (Paris, BnF 2457) for this work is by al-Nayrīzī.
ismi_id

295076

Literature References

Al-Bīrūnī, Abū. 1967. The Determination Of The Coordinates Of Positions For The Correction Of Distances Between Cities; A Translation From The Arabic Of Kitāb Taḥdīd Nihāyāt Al-Amākin Li-Taṣḥīḥ Masāfāt Al-Masākin. Tran. Jamil Ali. Beirut: The American University of Beirut.

P. 199.

İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin, and Boris Rozenfeld. 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. 65 (no. 137), A2.