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Monday, September 20, 2021

10th Century Astronomical Text of Abd-al Rahman al-Sufi Unveiled [Ancient Origins, September 2021]

Title:
10th Century Astronomical Text of Abd-al Rahman al-Sufi Unveiled 
 
Published:
Ancient Origins, 17 September 2021
 
From the article:
The “suwar al-kawakib" or the Book of Fixed Stars is a 10th century astronomical Arabic text, authored by the famed scholar Abd-al Rahman al-Sufi in the year 964 AD. It was produced by the powerful Greco-Arabic translation movement, which emanated in Baghdad and sought to translate secular Greek classical texts and the works of Hellenistic scholars into Arabic. 

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