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TEXT

ʿAmal al-mukḥulah lil-sāʿāt

Title (arabic)

عمل المكحلة للساعات
Title (translit)

ʿAmal al-mukḥulah lil-sāʿāt
Alias

ʿAmal al-mukḥulaẗ lil-sāʿāt
Author

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī al-Majūsī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Notes

An anonymous work on a portable sundial called the mukḥulah.
ismi_id

72833

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
ʿAmal al-mukḥulah lil-sāʿāt_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_4830

Literature References

Charette, François, and Petra Schmidl. 2004. “Al-Khwārizmī and Practical Astronomy in Ninth-Century Baghdad, the Earliest Extant Corpus of Texts in Arabic on the Astrolabe and Other Portable Instruments”. SCIAMVS 5: 101-98.

P. 108, text 11.

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. 25 (no. 41), A14.