Contributions of the Muslim Scholars and Scientists in development of astrology and related fields.
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Muhammad al-Farghani’s Elements of Chronology and Astronomy
- This work is a Latin translation of al-Farghānī's influential and well-known Kitāb jawāmi' 'ilm al-nujūm wa uṣūl al-ḥarakāt al-samāwīya (Book of generalities of astronomy and bases of celestial motions).
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Insan Aur Chaand Ka Safar انسان اور چاند کا سفر
- Islamic perspective about the achievement of Human Beings in reaching the Moon.
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Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology
- English translation of Kitab al-Tafhim li-Awa’il Sina’at al-Tanjim written by al-Biruni translated by R. Ramsay Wright. Arabic and English side by side.
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Risālah dar ʿilm-i rīyāz̤īyāt رساله در علم رياضيات
- Treatise on the mathematical sciences (geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music) excerpted from the works of Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037), edited and translated into Persian by his student Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al-Jūzjānī (أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني).…
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Sullam al-samā سلم السماء (al-Risālah al-kamālīyah الرسالة الكمالية)
- An astronomical treatise on the sizes and distances of the planets and fixed stars by Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī (غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي, d. 1429 or 1436). The text was composed in 1407 and was dedicated to the vizier Kamāl al-Dīn Maḥmūd (كمال الدين محمود, see f. 1v, lines 27-28), after whom the…
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Zij-i sultani زيج سلطانى
- This is astronomical table and star catalogue that was published by Ulugh Beg in 1438–1439. The book is joint effort of prominent muslim astronomers of time including Jamshid al-Kashi and Ali Qushji with support and contribution of Ulugh Beg at Samarkand's Ulugh Beg Observatory. Check details and download on OPENN https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_001.html Alternatively download from Archive.org
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Kitab Mīzan al-Hikmah كتاب ميزان الحكمة
- Substantial sections from an illustrated treatise on the measurement of weight, with a historical introduction to theories of gravity and weighing in Greek and Arabic science; tables of densities of substances including metals, precious stones, solids, and liquids; and descriptions of different types of balances. 26 diagrams and 18 tables with a few marginal notes. A few catchwords have been…
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al-Qanūn al-Masʿūdī القانون المسعودي
- An early and complete copy of the comprehensive astronomical work, or Canon , by Abū al-Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Bīrūnī (أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني, ca 973-1048). The al-Qanūn al-M asʿūdī was dedicated to Sultan Mas‘ūd of Ghaznī (reg. 1030-1040), and summarises the astronomy of the Almagest (كتاب المجسطي) of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168) and brings it…
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