TEXT

Khulāṣat al-hayʾat [T]

Title (arabic)

خلاصة الهيئة

Title (translit)

Khulāṣat al-hayʾat [T]

Alias

Risāla-yi hayʾat

Author

Created

1549 CE/ 0955 AH

Language

Turkish (Ottoman pre-1839)

Subject

Text type

Translation

Translation of

Dedicated to

Notes

Saydī ʿAlī Raʾīs's work is an extended Turkish rendition of Qūshjī's Risālah dar ʿilm al-hayʾah. He was well aware of al-Fatḥiyya, and in fact used Mīrim Čelebī's commentary. Indeed, some secondary sources misidentified Ḫulāṣat al-hayʾa as a translation of al-Fatḥiyya.

ismi_id

528947

Literature References

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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. 325 (no. 977), A1, A3.

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, pp. 141-42 (no. 71), 1.

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 171 (H11), 1.2.17. Misidentified as a translation of al-Fatḥiyya