Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: AthÄ«r Al-DÄ«n Al-AbharÄ«âs Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial Method

Taro Mimura

Chapter 11 Too Many Arabic Treatises on the Operation of the Astrolabe in the Medieval Islamic World: AthÄ«r Al-DÄ«n Al-AbharÄ«âs Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe and His Editorial Method

äºAstrolabes in Medieval Cultures

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Taro Mimura

Taro Mimura Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University 1-7-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521 Japan

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In the medieval Islamic world, many scholars engaged in astronomy composed books on astrolabe, especially treatises on how to operate it (called âTreatises on the Operation of the Astrolabeâ) such as Book of the Astrolabe (KitÄb alâAsá¹urlÄb) by KÅ«shyÄr ibn LabbÄn (fl. second half of the tenth century CE); however, most of them had similar contents. One might ask why these scholars sought to write their own treatises of this kind, even though they differed little from existing works on the subject? To answer this question, I compare KÅ«shyÄrâs Book of the Astrolabe (KitÄb alâAsá¹urlÄb) and AthÄ«r alâDÄ«n alâAbharÄ«âs (d. 1262 or 1265) Treatise on Knowing the Astrolabe (RisÄla fÄ« maÊ¿rifat al-Asá¹urlÄb), which was written under the strong influence of KÅ«shyÄrâs Book: a comparison between them reveals that they presupposed the use of their own astrolabes. This analysis shows that many Arabic treatises on the operation of the astrolabe had their novelty at least guaranteed by the uniqueness of a specific astrolabe presupposed by each author.

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