Risālah fī dalālat al-anwāʼ : manuscript, [2nd half of 19th cent.] / li-Abī Isḥāq al-Zajjāj.

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Risālah fī dalālat al-anwāʼ : manuscript, [2nd half of 19th cent.] / li-Abī Isḥāq al-Zajjāj.

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Believed to have been lost, this work contains "an explanation of the system of the anwāʼ ['the acronychal setting of a star or constellation and the heliacal rising of its opposite (raqīb)'], a list of the mansions ... etc.; the explanation is accompanied by maxims and poetry." Charles Pellat, "Anwāʼ," Encyclopedia of Islam, v. i (Leiden, 1957), p. 523b.

1 v. ([15] p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.

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