TEXT

Kitāb al-hayʾah (ʿUrḍī)

Title (arabic)

كتاب الهيئة

Title (translit)

Kitāb al-hayʾah (ʿUrḍī)

Alias

Kitāb al-hayʾaẗ (ʿUrḍī)

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

There are two versions of this treatise: one composed between 1235 and 1245, and a later version in which ʿUrḍī edited chapters of his original text.

ismi_id

48831

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.

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Saliba, George. 1979. “The First Non-Ptolemaic Astronomy At The Maraghah School”. Isis 70 (4): 571-576.
Saliba, George. 1990. The Astronomical Work Of Muʾayyad Al‐Dīn Al‐ʿUrḍī (Kitāb Al‐Hayʾa): A Thirteenth Century Reform Of Ptolemaic Astronomy. Bayrūt: Markaz dirāsat al‐wahda al‐ʿarabiyya.