TEXT

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (170 chapters)

Title (arabic)

رسالة في العمل بالاسطرلاب

Title (translit)

Risālah fī al-ʿamal bi-al-asṭurlāb (170 chapters)

Alias

Risālat al-asṭurlāb

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Version of

Notes

This version of al-Ṣūfī's treatise on working with the astrolabe is dedicated to the Buwayhid ruler Sharaf al-Dawla al-Daylamī (r. 983-988), and consists of 170 chapters.

ismi_id

364698

Literature References

Morelon, Régis, and Flora Vafea. 2006. “Les traités d’al-S̄ūfi Sur l’astrolabe”. Paris 7.
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. 86 (no. 212), A2.