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TEXT

Fāʾida fī khaṭṭ al-ẓill alladhī fī maḥall al-ādhān fī maʾdhanat al-ʿarūs bi-al-jāmiʿ al-Umawī bi-Dimashq

Title (arabic)

فائدة في خط الظل الذي في محل الآذان في مأذنة العروس بالجامع الأموي بدمشق
Title (translit)

Fāʾida fī khaṭṭ al-ẓill alladhī fī maḥall al-ādhān fī maʾdhanat al-ʿarūs bi-al-jāmiʿ al-Umawī bi-Dimashq
Author

Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Notes

(From King, Survey, 64-5): a note on the sundial (?) on the main minaret of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus. It is not completely clear that the note refers to Ibn al-Shāṭir’s sundial described in L. Janin, "Le Cadran Solaire de Ia Mosquée Umayyade de Damas," Centaurus, 16 (1971), pp. 285-298.
ismi_id

126750

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
Fāʾida fī khaṭṭ al-ẓill alladhī fī maḥall al-ādhān fī maʾdhanat al-ʿarūs bi-al-jāmiʿ al-Umawī bi-Dimashq_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Taymūr riyāḍa_161

Literature References

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

Pp. 64-5 (C37), 4.7.6