Astronomy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Astronomy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ragep, F. Jamil

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060755
Doc. NO	:	ALei1152
Main Entry	:	Ragep, F. Jamil
Title & Author	:	Astronomy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Ragep, F. Jamil
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(8,946 words)
Abstract	:	Astronomy and allied sciences were cultivated with particular vigour in mediaeval Islamic civilisation, as witnessed by the large quantity of texts, instruments, and visual materials that were produced. Though the majority of this work was created by Muslims writing in Arabic, it is not rare to encounter astronomical and cosmological endeavours written in Arabic by non-Muslims or texts written in other languages associated with Islam, in particular Persian and Turkish. This is what one might expect from traditions that lasted over a millennium—from the second/eighth to the
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1152.pdf