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Risālah Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib fī samt al-qiblah
| Title (arabic) |
رسالة حبش الحاسب في سمت القبلة
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| Title (translit) |
Risālah Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib fī samt al-qiblah
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| Alias |
[Analemma for Determining Qibla]
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| Language |
Arabic
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| Notes |
This work is not extant, but it is contained in the witness to his Zīj (Istanbul, Süleymaniye, Yeni Cami MS 784, ff. 194b-195). It is described by Bīrūnī in a letter to Saʿīd (see Leiden, Or. 168/16, ff. 136b-137a). |
| ismi_id |
125872
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Manuscript Witnesses
1 witnesses: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. 27 (no. 46), M2.
Kennedy, Edward, and Yusuf ʿId. 1974. “A Letter Of Al-Bīrūni: Ḥabash Al-Ḥāsib`s Analema For The Qibla”. Historia Mathematica 1: 3-11.