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TEXT

al-Kawr ʿalá-al-dawr, al-Amad ʿalá-al-abad

Title (arabic)

الكور على الدور، الأمد على الأبد
Title (translit)

al-Kawr ʿalá-al-dawr, al-Amad ʿalá-al-abad
Alias

Zīj al-muqtabis
Author

Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn al-Kammād
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Tables/zījes
ismi_id

83824

Manuscript Witnesses

3 witnesses:
al-Kawr ʿalá-al-dawr, al-Amad ʿalá-al-abad_Algiers_Bibliothèque nationale dʾAlgérie_unknown collection (Algiers Museum)_1454
al-Kawr ʿalá-al-dawr, al-Amad ʿalá-al-abad_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._Or._II 285
al-Kawr ʿalá-al-dawr, al-Amad ʿalá-al-abad_San Lorenzo de El Escorial_El Escorial Monastery Library of San Lorenzo_árabe_939

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.

P. 194 (no. 530), A1.

Chabás, José, and Bernard Goldstein. 1994. “Andalusian Astronomy: Al-Zīj Al-Muqtabis of Ibn Al-Kammād”. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 48: 1-41.

Research.

Comes, Mercè. 1994. “The ‘Meridian of Water’ in the Tables of Geographical Coordinates of Al-Andalus and North Africa”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 10: 41-51.

Research.