Article ID: CBB001510404

Persian Version of Kūshyār's Zīj: Calendars in the al-Zīj al-Jāmi' (2008)

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Bagheri, Mohammad (Author)


Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Volume: 6, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 21-67


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Persian.
Language: Persian

The first section of Book I of al-Zīj al-Jāmi' (The Comprehensive astronomical tables) by Kūshyār ibn Labbān al-Jīlī (Gīlānī), the Iranian astronomer who lived around ten centuries ago, is dedicated to the subject of calendars. In this section, Kushyar describes different types of calendars known in his time, their characteristics, and the methods for converting them to each other. Edition of an early Persian translation of this section, with introduction and commentary is provided in this article.

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Authors & Contributors
Mozaffari, S. Mohammad
Bagheri, Mohammad
Savadi, Fatemeh
Shahidi, Pouyan
Nikfahm Khubravan, Sajjad
Ghalandari, Hanif
Journals
Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Observatory
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Translations
Astronomy
Mathematics
Manuscripts
Astrolabes
People
Kūshyār ibn Labbān, al-Jīlī
Ptolemy
al-Sijzi, Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Jalil
Wabkanawi
Ibn al-Waḥshiyya, ʾAbū Bakr ʾAḥmad bin ʿAlī
Ibn al-Layth, Abu al-Jud Muhammad
Time Periods
10th century
Medieval
9th century
17th century
11th century
8th century
Places
Iran
Baghdad (Iraq)
Italy
Europe
Institutions
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)
Maragheh observatory
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