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TEXT

Tashīl zīj Ulugh Beg

Title (arabic)

تسهيل زيج ألغ بك
Title (translit)

Tashīl zīj Ulugh Beg
Alias

Tashīl zīj Ulugh Beg
Zīj al-Ṣūfī
Mukhtaṣar zīj Ulugh Beg
Author

Ibn Abī al‐Fatḥ al‐Ṣufi
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Tables/zījes
Text type

Revision
Version of

Zīj-i Ulugh Beg
Notes

Ibn Abī al‐Fatḥ al‐Ṣūfī recalculates Ulugh Beg's tables (originally prepared for Samarqand) for Egypt.
ismi_id

47679

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. 301 (no. 888), 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).

Pp. 125-26 (no. 58), 24.