Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ

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Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ

Title (arabic)	قول في الضوء
Title (translit)	Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ
Alias	Maqālaẗ fī al-ḍawʾ مقالة في الضوء
Author	Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham al-Baṣrī al-Miṣrī
Language	Arabic
Subject	OPTICS
Text type	First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
Notes	A discourse on light. Composed after Kitāb al-Manāẓir.
ismi_id	95376

Manuscript Witnesses

8 witnesses:

Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ_Aleppo_Basil House_NONE (Basil)_718

Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ_Beirut_St. Joseph University (Beirut)_None_218

Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ_Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Ms. or. oct._2970

Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ_Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Sprenger_1834

Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Atıf Efendi_1714

Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Fatih_3439

Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ_London_British Library_IO Islamic_1270

Qawl fī al-ḍawʾ_Tehran_Majlis shūrā_NONE (Majlis shūrā, Tehran)_2998

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