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TEXT

Kitāb al-ālah al-shāmilah

Title (arabic)

كتاب الآلة الشاملة
Title (translit)

Kitāb al-ālah al-shāmilah
Alias

Kitāb al-ālaẗ al-šāmilaẗ
Kitāb al-ālah al-ʿāmmah
Kitāb ṣanʿat al-ālah al-shāmilah
Author

Abū Maḥmūd Ḥāmid ibn al-Khiḍr al-Khujandī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
Other versions

[Complement to the Book of al-Khujandī on the Universal Instrument]
ismi_id

106303

Manuscript Witnesses

4 witnesses:
Kitāb al-ālah al-shāmilah_Birmingham, U.K._Univ. of Birmingham (Cadbury Research Library)_Islamic Arabic_560
Kitāb al-ālah al-shāmilah_Bursa_İnebey Yazma_Haraççıoğlu (Bursa)_1217
Kitāb al-ālah al-shāmilah_Cairo_Dār al-kutub_Dār al-kutub mīqāt_970
Kitāb al-ālah al-shāmilah_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._Huntington_566

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. 100 (no. 269), A1.