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Zubdat al-hayʼah زبدة الهيئة [Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد]
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Treatise on astronomy usually attributed to Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274; see Storey [ed.], ‘3 Astronomy and Astrology’, § 91, item 15, Storey Online, Brill Reference Online https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/storey-online/3-astr...
al-Muqaddimah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah المقدمة في علم الهيئة Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad سبط المارديني، بدر الدين محمد بن محمد
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Introduction to astronomy for beginners in the science of time keeping (علم الميقات). The title page (f. 137r) attributes the text to the astronomer and timekeeper (مُوَقِّت) at the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad (بدر الدين محمد بن محمد, d. after 1497), known as Sibṭ...
Risālat al-Zawrāʼ رسالة الزوراء Dawānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad دواني، محمد بن أسعد
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Philosophical treatise by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (جلال الدين محمد بن أسعد الدواني, d. 1502) composed at Najaf in 872/1467 (see Newman, 'Davānī, Jalāl-al-Dīn Moḥammad', in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online [accessed 2 June 2023] http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_8169). B...
Risālat al-Ḥawrāʼ رسالة الحوراء Dawānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad دواني، محمد بن أسعد
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Commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (جلال الدين محمد بن أسعد الدواني, d. 1502) on his own philosophical treatise the Risālat al-Zawrāʼ (رسالة الزوراء, item 7 in the present volume). Begins (f. 149v, lines 2-4): أما بعد الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيه فإني لما فرغت من تهذيب الر...
[Treatise on geomantic divination (علم الرمل)] Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
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Treatise on the 'science of sand' (علم الرمل), or geomantic divination, by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274). The text is perhaps the Sufficient Treatise on the Science of Sand (الرسالة الوافي في علم الرمل) also known as the Sultanic Treatise o...
al-Amān min akhṭār al-asfār wa-al-azmān الأمان من أخطار الأسفار والأزمان Ibn Ṭāwūs, ‘Alī ibn Mūsá ابن طاووس، علي بن موسى
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Handbook on health and medicine for use while travelling or at home, divided into 14 chapters (أبواب) by Raḍī al-Dīn Abū al-Qāsim ‘Alī ibn Mūsá ibn ibn Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāwūs al-‘Alawī al-Fāṭimī (رضي الدين أبو القاسم علي بن موسى بن جعفر بن محمد بن محمد الطاووس العلوي الفاطمي; ...
Sharḥ masāʾil fī al-ṭibb شرح مسائل في الطب Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري، أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي
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Volume One (الجزء الأول) of a commentary by Abū al-Qāsim ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn Abī Ṣādiq al-Nīsābūrī (أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن علي ابن أبي صادق النيسابوري, d. ca 1068) on the Questions on Medicine for Students (المسائل في الطب للمتعلّمين) by Abū Zayd Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-‘Ibādī ...
al-Jāmiʿ fī al-adwīyah al-mufradah الجامع في الأدوية المفردة Ibn Samajūn, Ḥāmid حامد، ابن سمجون
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Part Two (الجزء الثاني) of a multi-volume work on materia medica by Abū Bakr Ḥāmid ibn Samajūn (أبو بكر حامد بن سمجون, fl. ca 1000). The work, also known as the Compendium of Statements of the Ancient and Modern Physicians and Philosophers on Simple Drugs (الجامع لأقوال القدماء والمتحدثين من الأ...
Quwá al-adwiyah al-mufradah قوى الأدوية المفردة Ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ابن أبي الأشعث، أحمد بن محمد
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Volume One (الجزء الأول) of a compendium on materia medica by Abū Ja‘far Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Ash‘ath (أبو جعفر أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي الأشعث; d. 970). In the preface (f. 7v), the author states that the text is divided into three treatises (مقالات), but the manuscript is defective at the...
Qānūn al-idrāk fī tashrīḥ al-aflāk قانون الإدراك في تشريح الأفلاك Tankābunī, Muḥammad Kāẓim تنكابني، محمد كاظم
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Commentary by Muḥammad Kāẓim ibn ‘Abd al-‘Alī al-Tankābunī (محمد كاظم عبد العلي التنكابني, d. after 1623-4, see al-Amīn, Mustadrakāt a‘yān al-shī‘ah, vol 2, p. 308) on the Anatomy of the Spheres (تشريح الأفلاك) by al-Tankābunī''s teacher Bahā’ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-‘Āmilī (بهاء الدين محم...