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

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Hay'a (Heavenly Configurations) Astronomy 16th century Safavid dynasty Persia (Iran) Dashtakī, Ghīyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr

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
Barker, Peter
Gamini, Amir Mohammad
Mimura, Taro
Ragep, F. Jamil
Ragep, Sally P.
Niazi, Kaveh
Journals
Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy
Science in Context
Studies in History of Medicine and Science
Suhayl: Journal for the History of the Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilisation
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World
Publishers
Springer
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
University of California Press
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Springer International Publishing
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Astronomy
Hay'a (Heavenly Configurations)
Orbits; planets
Translations
Development of science; change in science
People
al-Ṭūsī, Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad Naṣīr al-Dīn
Ptolemy
Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī
al-ʿĀmilī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn
al-Farghani, Abu al-Abbas
al-Ghazālī, Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad
Time Periods
13th century
Medieval
15th century
16th century
Early modern
Safavid dynasty
Places
Persia (Iran)
Ottoman Empire
Poland
Spain
Central Asia
Institutions
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā'
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