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San‘at al-zāmir صنعة الزامر Apollonius the carpenter and geometer أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي
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Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; أبلونيوس; fl ca 200 BC). The text in this copy...
al-Kāmil fī ṣan‘at al-asṭurlāb al-shimālī wa-al-junūbī wa-‘ilalihuma bi-l-handasah wa-al-ḥisab الكامل في صنعة الأسطرلاب الشمالي والجنوبي وعللهما بالهندسة والحساب Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Kathīr فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد بن كثير
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Earliest known Arabic treatise on the construction of the astrolabe, by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farghānī (أحمد بن محمد الفرغاني; fl. ca 820-860). The text contains seventy-two diagrams and tables: Geometric diagram (f. 22v); Geometric diagram (f. 24r); Geometric diagram (f. 24v); Geometric diagra...
al-Zīj [al-mufīd] ʿalá uṣūl al-raṣd al-jadīd الزيج [المفيد] على أصول الرصد الجديد Razzāz, Riḍwān ibn ʻAbd Allāh رزاز، رضوان بن عبد الله
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Astronomical handbook with tables (زيج) by the Ottoman Egyptian astronomer Riḍwān Efendi ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Razzāz al-Falakī (رضوان أفندي بن عبد الله الرزاز الفلكي, d. 1711). The text, also known as the al-Zīj al-Riḍwānī (الزيج الرضواني), is a revision of the Samarqand observatory's Zīj-i Ulugh Be...
This volume contains a reference collection of fetava. Most of these are grouped in three untitled compilations without the authors' names provided, two of which are systematically arranged. Only the second compilation is dated, but the entirety is likely from the 17th century CE. (I) ff 2r-71...
Kitab tercümetü'l-Havaşi li mukahhime fi şerh il-Mukaddime - كتاب ترجمة الحواشى لمقحمة في شرح المقدمة
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This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of a commentary on an Arabic metrical work on tecvit (Qur'an recitation) entitled al-Muqaddimah fī ᶜilm al-tajwīd (المقدمة في علم التجويد) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Jazarī (751-833 AH/1350-1429 CE). His son, Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad a...