TEXT
Hayʾat al-aflāk
| Title (arabic) |
هيئة الأفلاك
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| Title (translit) |
Hayʾat al-aflāk
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| Author |
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| Language |
Arabic
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| Subject |
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| Notes |
This text describes both the celestial and terrestrial realms. A codex table of contents (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Seld. 11) attributes the work to Qusṭā ibn Lūqā. But this t of c and the attribution are in a different hand than the witness itself and the text itself is anonymous. A passage from the work using the distance between Palmyra and Raqqa to find the size of the Earth is found in Damascus, Ẓāhiriyya 4489, f. 12a-b, where it is attributed to Muḥammad ibn Mūsā under the title “Ḥarakat al-aflāk”, which see. |
| ismi_id |
269616
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Manuscript Witnesses
1 witnesses:Literature References
Saliba, George. 1994. A History Of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During The Golden Age Of Islam. New York: New York University Press.
P. 17.
Saliba, George. 1994. “Early Arabic Critique Of Ptolemaic Cosmology: A Ninth-Century Text On The Motion Of The Celestial Spheres”. Journal For The History Of Astronomy 25: 115-41.
P. 119.
Saliba, George. 2007. Islamic Science And The Making Of The European Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Pp. 18, 262.