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Or 11313, ff 137r-142v

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040-004541301

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Or 11313, ff 137r-142v

Title:

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

Scope & Content:

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 al-Māridīnī (سبط المارديني). Although no text by this title is listed amongst his works, the same text is found ascribed to this author in Riyadh, King Saud University Library, MS 170 (ʻilm al-mīqāt 529).

At the end of the text, the author mentions another of his treatises called The Problem (رسالتي المسماة بالمطلب) in which he differentiates between the 'true horizon' (الأفق الحقيقي) and the 'apparent horizon' (الأفق المرئي, see f. 142v, line 12, transcribed below). This second treatise may be Sibṭ al-Māridīnī's The Problem: On [Using] the Sine Quadrant (المطلب في [العمل بـ]الربع المجيب, see Rosenfeld and Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) [Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003], no. 873, item A9, p. 296).

Begins (f. 137v, lines 1-4):

... وبه التوفيق والإعانة

الحمد لله رب العالمين وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين والمرسلين

ورضي الله عن الصحابة والتابعين أما بعد فهذه مقدمة أوردت فيها

ما يجب استحضاره لمن يبتدئ في علم الميقات ...

Ends (f. 142v, lines 8-13):

... المطالع البلدية عبارة عن الماضي

من الزمان من حين يطلع رأس الحمل إلى طلوع الشمس وهو قوس من دائرة معدل

النهار فيما بين رأس الحمل والأفق الشرقي على توالي البروج حال طلوع الشمس

وقس من حدود أعمال الشمس واعلم أني قد أطلقت لفظ الأفق هنا ومرادي به

الأفق الحقيقي لا المرئي وفيه تحت ذكرته في رسالتي المسماة بالمطلب والله

سـ (!) سبحانه وتعالى أعلم بالصواب وإليه المرجع والمآب

Colophon (f. 142v, lines 14-15):

تمت بحمد الله تعالى وعونه وحسن توفيقه وصلى الله على سيدنا محمد خاتم النبيين وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين

وحسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل

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Oriental Manuscripts

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Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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040-004541301

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Or 11313 : Nine treatises on scientific and philosophical subjects

Or 11313, ff 137r-142v : al-Muqaddimah fī ʻilm al-hayʼah المقدمة في علم الهيئةSibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad…

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Ff. 137r-142v

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Languages:

Arabic

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Arabic

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

16th century

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Rosenfeld, B. A. and Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu, Mathematicians, Astronomers, and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilization and Their Works (7th-19th c.) (Istanbul: IRCICA, 2003), no. 873, item A9, p. 296
De Young, Gregg, 'Sibṭ al-Māridīnī: Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Abū ʿAbd Allāh Badr [Shams] al-Dīn al-Miṣrī al-Dimashqī', in The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, ed. by Thomas Hockey et al., (New York: Springer, 2007) p. 1058

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Names:

Sibṭ al-Māridīnī, Badr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, astronomer, mathematician, born 1423

Subjects:

Astronomy--Early works to 1800