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Bayān al-nujūm

Title (arabic)

بيان النجوم
Title (translit)

Bayān al-nujūm
Alias

Bayān al-nujūm
Author

Sharaf al-Dīn Abū al-Faḍl Ḥubaysh ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Tiflīsī
Language

Persian-Farsi
Subject

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Notes

Tiflīsī in his introduction to the Bayān says that his motivation in writing this work was that he could not find a short Persian book that covered
hayʾa, astrology and the astrolabe. He devoted the first part of the book to hayʾa.
ismi_id

92712

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. 202 (no. 567), A2.

Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub waʾl-funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum a Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

2:80.