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Kitāb al-falak al-dāʾir min tuḥaf al-jawāhir كتاب الفلك الدائر من تحف الجواهر

Khalīlī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, Shams al-Dīn خليلي، محمد بن محمد، شمس الدين

Scope & Content:

Set of sixty-two auxilliary tables for astrological time-keeping (ميقات) at all latitudes, with an introduction in ten chapters (باب) and a conclusion (خاتمة) explaining their use, by Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī (شمس الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن محمد الخليلي, fl. ca 1365), timekeeper (موَقِّت) of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus.

The title page gives the full title of the work as follows (f. 330r, lines 2-6):

كتاب الفلك الدائر من تحف الجواهر والذخائر

مقتطف من جواهر العلوم في علم الفلك والنجوم

مشتمل على علم السموت والميقات

يعمل به في جميع الأقاليم من الأربع جهات

للشيخ الإمام الأستاذ شمس الدين محمد الخليلى رحمه الله وغفر له

Contents of the introduction:

(1) Chapter 1: Knowing the arc of day or night to the Sun or a planet (الباب الأول في معرفة قوس النهار أو الليل للشمس أو الكوكب, ff. 330v-331r);
(2) Chapter two: Knowing the hour-angle (الباب الثاني في معرفة فضل الدائر, f. 331r);
(3) Chapter three: Another method for knowing the hour-angle (الباب الثالث لمعرفة فضل الدائر بوجه آخر, f. 331r, citing a certain Shaykh ʻIzz al-Dīn [شيخ عز الدين, line 14]);
(4) Chapter four: knowing maximum altitudes (الباب الرابع في معرفة غاية الارتفاع, ff. 331r-331v);
(5) Chapter five: Knowing [the direction of] Makkah [from] the east and west (الباب الخامس في معرفة مكة المشرق والمغرب, ff. 331v-332r);
(6) Chapter six: Knowing the azimuth of Makkah and other [locations] from [various] countries (الباب السادس في معرفة سمت مكة وغيرها من البلدان, f. 332v);
(7) Chapter seven: Knowing declination by means of observation from a known latitude (الباب السابع في معرفة الميل بالرصد مع كون العرض معلومًا, ff. 332r-333r);
(8) Chapter eight: Knowing a planet's apogee (الباب الثامن في معرفة بعد الكوكب, f. 333r);
(9) Chapter nine: Knowing a planet's ascension (الباب التاسع في معرفة بطالع الكوكب, ff. 333r-333v);
(10) Chapter ten: Knowing [how to] work [i.e., determine prayer times] by means of the planets (الباب العاشر في معرفة العمل بالكواكب, ff. 333v-334r);
(11) Conclusion (الخاتمة, ff. 334r-334v).

Tables:

(1) Declination table for all latitudes (جدول الميل بجميع العروض, f. 335r);
(2) Table of [solar] altitudes of midday and afternoon prayers as a function of the [solar] zenith for latitudes one to fifty (جدول ارتفاع الظهر والعصر من قبل ارتفاع الزوال من عرض ا إلى ن, ff. 335v-336r);
(3) Table of the locations of the fixed stars from their longitude, latitude, rising times and apogees (جدول مواضع الكواكب الثابتة من الطول والعرض والمطالع والبعد, ff. 336v-337r, with note above table on f. 336v stating that the values in the table are 'for the year 1015?/1606-7 [written 'the year 1006/1597-8' (سنة ١٠٠٦) above the line] from the correction of Muḥammad al-Ṣakhrī may God be kind to him [لسنة شيه من إصلاح محمد الصخري لطف الله به]);
(4) Table of the path of the signs of the zodiac in the meridian of each country, which are the rising times (جدول ممر البروج في دائرة نصف نهار كل بلد وهو المطالع, ff. 337v-338r [incomplete]);
(5-54) Fifty tables for latitudes one to fifty (ff. 338v-363r; the table for latitude thirty-three notes that this is the latitude of Damascus [f. 354v], the table for latitude thirty-six notes that this is the latitutude for Algiers [f. 356r], and the table for latitude thirty-seven notes that this is the latitude for Algiers and Tunis [f. 356v]);
(55-62) Eight sine tables for latitudes one to fifty (جداول جيب الترتيب الذي من عرض ا إلى عرض ن, ff. 363v-372r).

Begins (f. 330v, lines 2-4):

الحمد لله الذي بنعمته تتم الصالحات ولعظمته أطاعتا الأرض

والسموات وبحكمته علمت الأشهر والأوقات وبأمره الشمس والقمر

والنجوم مسخرات (؟) ...

Colophon (f. 372r, below table):

كملت جداول الخليلي بحمد الله وحسن عونه

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1807

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1807

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Cureton, William and Charles Rieu, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum orientalium qui in Museo Britannico asservantur. Pars secunda, codices arabicos amplectens (London: The British Museum, 1846-71), item 977, p. 447

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King, David A., 'Khalīlī: Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Khalīlī' in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al. (New York: Springer, 2007), pp. 625-26

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Khalīlī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, Shams al-Dīn, astronomer, timekeeper, fl 14th century