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Book/Printed Material Marginal Notes on the Commentary on the Précis of Astronomy.

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Title

  • Marginal Notes on the Commentary on the Précis of Astronomy.

Summary

  • This astronomical manuscript is comprised of notes by al-Birjandi on a treatise by Qadi'zadah, which is itself a commentary on a work by al-Jighmini entitled al-Mulkhkhas fi al-hay'ah (Précis of astronomy). The manuscript is thus the work of three scientists specializing in mathematics and astronomy. Included are extensive hashiyah (marginal notes) on Qadi'zadah's sharh (commentary) on the principles of astronomy by al-Jighmini. The manuscript first covers the principles of geometry necessary for the study of the heavens. There follows extensive coverage of the position of celestial bodies in relation to the earth and the seasons. The three authors demonstrate the vitality from the 13th to the 17th centuries of what is called "Arab" astronomy. Research was passed from generation to generation and from academy to academy. But the work also reminds us that what is often termed "Arab science" is in fact a body of knowledge created by scholars from many lands who wrote in Arabic, the lingua franca of the learned. For example, astronomer-mathematician Qadi'zadah was born in Turkish-speaking Bursa, a city west of Istanbul. He moved to the Timurid city of Samarkand in Central Asia, where Persian and Turkish were commonly spoken but where scientific writing was largely in Arabic. Qadi'zadah wrote little, but his commentary was frequently copied and used as a textbook in many parts of the Islamic world. The central text is copiously annotated and there are a few geometric illustrations in the margins. The colophon mentions that the work was copied by Mustafa ibn 'Ali al-Buluni (sic). On the front leaves are ownership statements and poetic couplets in Persian; on the back flyleaves is a long comment on the characteristics of fixed stars. None of the three works has been edited and published in a critical edition.

Names

  • Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, active 16th century Author.
  • Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, died 1221? Contributor.
  • Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, died approximately 1436 Contributor.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1670.

Headings

  • -  1200 to 1670
  • -  Arabic manuscripts
  • -  Astronomy, Arab
  • -  Astronomy, Medieval
  • -  Jighmīnī, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad, died 1221?
  • -  Qāḍīʹzādah, Mūsá ibn Muḥammad, died approximately 1436
  • -  Science, Medieval

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 102 pages ; 21 x 15 centimeters.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: Dalal, Ahmad. "Science, Medicine, and Technology: The Making of a Scientific Culture," in The Oxford History of Islam, edited by John L. Esposito (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).|David Pingree, "Abd-al-ali-Birjandi" in Encyclopaedia Iranica. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abd-al-ali-birjandi.|F. External Jamil Ragep, "Qāḍīzāde al-Rūmī: Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Mūsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Rūmī," in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, edited by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007).
  • -  Original resource at: Qatar National Library.
  • -  Content in Arabic and Persian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

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  • 2021667315

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Chicago citation style:

Birjandī, ʻAbd Al-ʻAlī Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn, Active 16Th Century Author, Maḥmūd Ibn Muḥammad Jighmīnī, and Mūsá Ibn Muḥammad QāḍīʹZādah. Marginal Notes on the Commentary on the Précis of Astronomy. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1670] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667315/.

APA citation style:

Birjandī, ʻ. A. I. M. I. Ḥ., Jighmīnī, M. I. M. & QāḍīʹZādah, M. I. M. (1670) Marginal Notes on the Commentary on the Précis of Astronomy. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667315/.

MLA citation style:

Birjandī, ʻAbd Al-ʻAlī Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥusayn, Active 16Th Century Author, Maḥmūd Ibn Muḥammad Jighmīnī, and Mūsá Ibn Muḥammad QāḍīʹZādah. Marginal Notes on the Commentary on the Précis of Astronomy. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 1670] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021667315/>.