Article ID: CBB999272408

Ghīyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī’s Al-Safīr fī al-Hayʾa: an Abridged Treatise in “Hayʾa” of Safavid Period (2018)

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Al-Safīr fī al-Hayʾa is a short treatises in “Hayʾa” written in 1500 A.D. /906 AH, by Ghīyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr Dashtakī, a great scholar of Safavid period. It is important to study this treatise because in the first place, it is one of the latest “Hayʾa” books written after many other books in this subject. In the second place, it is written in the period usually considered as the period of decline of Islamic science. And finally, unlike other short “Hayʾa” books, it includes a discussion of the difficulties of Ptolemaic planetary models, with some hints to the author’s or the other scholars’ solutions. This paper studies Dashtaki’s scientific character and introduces Al-Safīr fī al-Hayʾa with a descriptive - analytical approach. A study of its contents shows that this treatise is a standard, brief, and instructional textbook based on Ptolemaic planetary models. The distinctive feature of this book is its presentation of the difficulties of Ptolemaic planetary models and the history of their solutions, apparently to persuade the scholars to study Dashtaki’s other advanced works on “Hayʾa” and getting to know his solutions

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Authors & Contributors
Ghalandari, Hanif
Niazi, Kaveh
Ragep, Sally P.
Ragep, F. Jamil
Mimura, Taro
Gamini, Amir Mohammad
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Astronomy
Hay'a (Heavenly Configurations)
Orbits; planets
Science and society
Arabic language
Time Periods
Medieval
13th century
Safavid dynasty
Early modern
17th century
16th century
Places
Persia (Iran)
Ottoman Empire
Central Asia
Spain
Poland
Institutions
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā'
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