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Irshād [P]

Title (arabic)

مختصر ارشاد

Title (translit)

Irshād [P]

Alias

Muḫtaṣar-i Iršād
Irshād-i asṭurlāb
Panjāh bāb
رسالة في الصطرلاب

Author

Created

697H/1297J

Created in

Language

Persian-Farsi

Subject

Notes

A treatise on the use of the astrolabe in 50 chapters.

ismi_id

304350

Literature References

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King, David. 1999. World-Maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca: Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science. Leiden; Boston: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 75-76, 2.6.2. See also pp. 86n, 87, 132n, 153, 337.

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. 154 (G31).

Storey, Charles, and François De Blois. Persian Literature: A Bio‐Bibliographical Survey. 5 vol. London: Luzac.

Vol. 2: 63-64.