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Jahān-i dānish / by Sharaf al-Dīn-i Masʿūdī ; (Edited by) Jalīl Akhavān Zanjānī.
جهان دانش by شرف الدين محمد بن مسعود مسعودي ; (Edited by) جلیل اخوان زنجانی.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Masʿūdī, Sharaf al-Dīn-i, author.
- مسعودی ، شرف الدین محمد ، بین مسعود, author.
- Language:
- English
- Persian
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomie--Empire islamique--Ouvrages avant 1800.
- Astronomie.
- Astronomy--Islamic Empire--Early works to 1800.
- Astronomy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Persian.
- Summary:
- Sharaf al-Din Mas'ūdi (6th/12th cent.) was a philosopher, astronomer, mathematician and logician. A native of Marw, he spent a large part of his life in Bukhara and Samarqand, Transoxiana. In Bukhara he had a number of debates with the philosopher and theologian Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī (d. 606/1210), described in the latter's Munāẓarāt jarat fī bilād Mā warāʾ al-nahr . From among his philosophical works, his critical notes to Avicenna's (d. 428/1037) al-Ishārāt wal-tanbīhāt deserve special mention. In the sciences, he wrote a work on astronomy and geography called al-Kifāya fī ʿilm al-hayʾa . In the introduction to this work he explains that he composed it at the request of a friend and that it is based on the works of others, among then Ibn al-Haytham (d. ca. 432/1040-41) and Kushyār b. Labbān (fl. late 4th/10th cent.). Afterwards, he translated it into Persian-this time without mentioning his sources-calling it Jahāni- dānish , published in this volume.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789004403383
- 9004403388
- OCLC:
- 58405216
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004403383 DOI
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