TEXT

Fī samt al-qiblah

Title (arabic)

في سمت القبلة

Title (translit)

Fī samt al-qiblah

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

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

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. 65 (no. 137), A2.

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. Trans. Jamil Ali. Beirut: The American University of Beirut.

P. 199.