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TEXT

Risālah fī samt al-qiblah

Title (arabic)

رسالة في سمت القبلة
Title (translit)

Risālah fī samt al-qiblah
Alias

samt al-qiblaẗ
Author

Abū al-Yusr ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Bazdawī
Created in

Samarqand
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomy: Practical
Text type

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

A treatise on the qibla.
ismi_id

154920

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. 163 (no. 394), A1.

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

P. 50 (no. B88), 3.3.2

King, David. 1983. “AI-Bazdawī on the Qibla in Early Islamic Transoxiana”. Journal of the History of Arabic Science 7: 3-38.

Edited and trans., based on a copy preserved in Sohaq, dated 1355 H. [1937].