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Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsah

Title (arabic)

كتاب الأعلاق النفيسة
Title (translit)

Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsah
Alias

Kitāb al-aʿlāq al-nafīsaẗ
Author

Abū ʿAlī Aḥmad ibn ʿUmar ibn Rustah
Language

Arabic
Subject

OTHER
Notes

(From MAMS2): Only volume VII of this encyclopaedia containing astronomical and geographical chapters is extant.
ismi_id

130842

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. 58 (no. 112), E1.

Sezgin, Fuat. 1978. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 6, Astronomie Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 160.