TEXT

Mukhtaṣar dar ʿilm hayʿat

Title (arabic)

مختصر در علم هیأت

Title (translit)

Mukhtaṣar dar ʿilm hayʿat

Alias

Mukhtaṣar dar hayʿat
Lubāb-i Iskandarī
لباب اسكندرى

Author

Language

Persian-Farsi

Subject

Notes

There are two versions of this work, one is dedicated to Iskandar Bahādur-khān, the grandson of Tamberlane (Timur) and the cousin of Ulugh Beg, who reigned in Fars from 1409 to 1414. Kāšī was the protege of Iskandar before going to Samarqand. See DENA reference below, for details on 6 copies of the Lubāb-i Iskandarī located in repositories in Qum, Tehran, and Yaz.

ismi_id

68054

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. 271 (no. 802), A13, A14.

Dena: Fihristwāra-Yi Dastniwishthā-Yi Īrān. 2010. 12 vol.. Tehran: Muṣṭafā Dirāyatī.

8:997. Six copies of the Lubāb-i Iskandarī are listed in repositories in Qum, Tehran, and Yaz.

Nikfahm-Khubravan, Sajjad, and Fateme Savadi. 2011. “A Survey Of Ghiyāth Al-Dīn Jamshīd Al-Kāshānī's Lubāb-I Iskandarī”. Ketāb-E Māh-E 'Olōm Va Fonōn 52 (Second Series, vol. 5, no. 4).
Aubin, Jean. 1957. “Le Mécénat Timouride À Chiraz”. Studia Islamica 8: 71-88.

See esp. 77-78.