Index

Aaboe, Asger, 80

Abbasid, 10, 74

ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Yaḥyā, 45

ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān, 46, 50–54, 57, 58, 65, 68, 73, 80, 81, 125

Abharī, Athīr al-Dīn, al-, 21

Abū Ḥārith, 76

Abū Hilāl al-ʿAskarī, 50

Abū Hilāl al-Ṣābiʿ, 83

Abū Ibrāhīm, 76

AbūʿIsā, 76

Abū Isḥāq Ibn Shahrām, 48

Abū Maʾshar, 35–40, 135

Abū Sahl, al- Kūhī, 83

Abū Ṣaqr Ibn Bulbul, 71

Abū Sulaimān, 38

Abū Sulaimān al-Manṭiqīal-Sijistānī, 48

Abū Thābit Sulaimān b. Saʿd, 45

AbūʿUbayd, 116

Abū Zakarīya, 76

Academies, 252–254

Adab al-kātib, 55

Ahl al-ḥadīth, 14, 52, 234

al-tawḥīd, 13

Akhawayn, 111

Alamūt, 244

Alchemy, 45, 50, 51, 57

Alexander the Great, 11, 32–34

Alexandria, 7 Alfonsine Tables, 209

Algebra, 17–19, 54, 67

ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā, 222

Almagest, 3, 8, 12, 17, 20, 60, 61, 69, 71, 79, 80, 84–97, 100, 101, 104, 107, 134–136, 139, 150, 168, 169, 176, 241, 247

Alpagus, Andreas, 210, 220, 229, 231

ʿĀmilī, al-Muḥaqqiq ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusain, 190

ʿĀmilī, Bahāʾ al-Dīn, 115, 116

Amr khārij ʿan al-ṭabʿ, 179

Ancient sciences, 4, 5, 9, 29, 30, 36, 44, 47, 49, 51, 52, 56–58, 64, 71, 72, 86, 92, 126

Andalus, 94, 95, 177

Anūshirvān, Chosroes, 33

Anthologia (Vetius Valens), 11

Antioch, 5–7, 41, 227

Anwāʾ texts, 86

Apollonius, 12, 120, 122, 123, 136, 145, 152, 163, 166, 202–205

Apotelesmatica (Paulus Alexandrinus), 8

Arabic, 3, 55, 63, 64, 69, 73, 76, 77, 126, 188, 195, 214, 217, 221, 223, 231

Ardashīr, 32, 33

Aristarchus of Samos, 120

Aristotle, 7, 13, 34, 47, 48, 51, 52, 63, 66, 75, 91, 93, 119–124, 127, 132, 134, 136, 148, 149, 162, 163, 170, 173–175, 178–182, 185

Arithmetic (Nicomachus), 12

Arithmetica (Diophantus), 12, 18

Arsenius, 223–225

Asad b. Jānī, 76, 77

ʿAskarī, Abū Hilāl, al-, 50

Astrolabe, 18, 222–225, 246

Astrologers, 15, 30, 49, 132, 134, 168, 174, 175, 191

Astrology, 14, 33, 39, 40, 78, 79, 90, 96, 127, 132, 168, 174–176, 191

Astronomers, Greek, 34, 78

Astronomy, 19, 20, 23, 27, 28, 34, 69, 71, 78, 88, 94, 100–104, 108, 111–117, 120, 124, 131–134, 141, 149–155, 161, 162, 165–168, 171–178, 181, 184, 186, 190, 191, 194, 196, 198, 209, 211, 216, 220, 221, 231–233, 236, 237, 240, 246

Avicenna. See Ibn Sīnā

Awāʾil, Kitāb al-, 50

Awṣāf al-ashrāf, 188

Bābak, 32

Baghdādī, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, al-, 128, 129

Baghdādī, Abū al-Barakāt, al-, 183, 184

Bait al-ḥikma, 48

Bait al-māl, 57

Bakhtīshūʿ family, 61, 62

Jibrāʾīl b., 75

Banū Mūsā, 15, 20, 48, 75, 92, 96, 238. See also Mūsā, Shākir

Banū Tamīm, 45

Bar Hebraeus, 24

Barmakids, 10

Barmakī, Khālid, al-, 17

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 218

Bīrūnī, Abū al-Raiḥān, 15, 38, 39, 96, 120, 134

Biṭrūjī, al-, 120, 121

Bodleian Library, 196, 220

Book of Treasures (Job of Edessa), 43

Brahe, Tycho, 247

Budé, Guillaume, 219

Bukhāra, 95

Bukhārī, Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa, al-, 240

Bureaucrats, kuttāb, 15, 45, 56, 58, 60–

64, 67, 71, 73, 77, 83, 87

Buyids, 83

Būzjānī, Abū al-Wafāʾ, al-, 56

Byzantium, 4–7, 22, 41–48, 51, 66, 124, 195, 194, 214–217, 221

Calepino, Ambrosio, 247

Caliphate, 236

Calligraphic design, 225 Canon of Medicine, 229, 239. See also Ibn Sīna

Carmen Astrologicum (Dorotheus Sidonius), 12

Çelebī, Mīram, 114

Center of heaviness, 120, 137, 138, 162, 179, 185

Chaldeans, 37, 49

China and Chinese, 11, 32, 33, 36, 248, 251–254

Chioniades, Gregory, 194

Chosroes Anūshirvān, 33, 34

Christians and Christianity, 7 , 41–44, 58, 62

Chronology of Nations (Bīrūnī), 15

Circles representing spheres, 92

small, 106, 107, 110, 148, 149, 156, 181

Coins, 51, 57

Collège de France, 22, 219

Colombo, Realdo, 25, 222, 231 Commentariolus, 155, 207

Conic valve, 237, 238 Conics (Apollonius), 12

Conjecture (ḥads), 118, 119

Consistency, 94, 101, 104, 108, 127, 165–170, 178, 194, 215, 216

Constantine, 42

Constellations, 86, 87

Contact theory of transmission, 4, 5, 9, 46, 50, 57, 125

Copernicus, Nicholas, 23, 141, 144, 146, 154–156, 164, 165, 183, 185, 189, 190, 193–232, 247, 249

Cosmas Indicopleustis, 6

Cosmology, 90–95, 104, 105, 109, 119, 129, 133, 135, 138, 162, 167, 169, 173–175, 179, 185, 193, 204, 211, 215

Creation of science, 35

Critical spirit, 108

Critique, 103, 108, 131, 133, 233, 235. See also Shukūk

continuity of, 109

corpus of, 112

of Greek scientific tradition, 86, 97, 234, 239

of lunar motion, 97

of observational astronomy, 124, 131

of Ptolemaic astronomy, 103, 104, 109, 124, 133

Ḋaḥḥāk, al- (dah ak), 31

Dār al-ʿilm, 254

Dara son of Dara, 32

Darius, 32

Dashtaghī, Ghiyāth al-Dīn Manṣūr b.

Muḥammad al-Ḥusainī al-Shīrāzī, al-, 114–116

Decimal system, 9, 18, 19

Decline, age of, 233–255

Deferent,140

Dehwīh, 45

Della Vida, Giorgio Levi, 219

Demonstrative science, 122

De Revolutionibus (Copernicus), 23, 183

Deviation, 147

Dhayl al-fatḥīya, 114

Dhayl-i Muʿīnīya, 158

Dīnārs, 50, 51, 57

Diophantus, 12, 17, 18, 66

Dioscorides, 253

Dirhams, 50

Disciplines, 67–69

Dīwān, 45–47, 50–60, 63, 67, 68, 70, 77, 80

Diyār Bakr, 227, 236

Dorotheus Sidonius, 12

Syrian, 33

Doubts. See Shukūk

Dream of al-Maʾmūn, 13, 47–52, 65, 70, 71

Easter, computation of, 229

Eccentricity, 89

Eccentrics, 119–123, 136–140, 145, 151,

162, 163, 166, 169, 170, 178, 179, 185, 202, 204

Eclipses, 84, 90

Ecliptic, 19, 20, 81, 90, 131, 231

Egypt, 31–33, 56, 250

Elements Aristotelian, 91

Euclid’s, 3, 12, 17, 151, 228, 229

simple, 120, 138 Elements of Astrology, 134

Engineering, mechanical, 237, 246

Epicycles, 96, 119, 120, 122, 123, 136, 138, 154, 160, 162, 170, 179, 184, 185

Epicyclic model, 137, 151, 152, 162, 163, 166, 178, 202

Epitome Almagesti, 217

Equant (Muʿaddil al-masīr), 95, 98–102, 106, 109, 113, 115, 135, 140–145, 148, 151–155, 158, 160, 164–166, 202, 204

Equator of motion. See Equant

Ether, 93, 120, 121, 138, 140, 148, 162, 177, 184, 185, 213

Euclid, 3, 6, 199, 212, 228

Eudoxus, 121

European libraries, 218

Faʿaltu fa-lā talum, 160

Fārābī, al-, 7, 34, 41, 42

Farāʾiḍ, ʿilm al-, 78, 103, 127, 171, 186

Farghānī, Ibn Kathīr, al-, 81

Fārisī, Kamāl al-Dīn, al-, 21, 239, 240

Farmāsp, the Indian, 33

Fatḥal-Mannān fī tafsīr al-qurʿān, 189

Fazāra, 16

Fazāri, Ibrāhīm, al-, 15, 16, 74

Ferrara, 220

Fihrist (al-Nadīm), 11, 28, 29, 42

François I, 219

Fuṣūl method, 82–84, 90, 131

Fuwaṭī, Ibn al-, 243, 244

Galen, 6, 24, 25, 64, 66, 71, 75, 124, 128, 187, 235, 239

Galileo Galilei, 183, 252

Generation, and corruption, 174, 182

Geocentrism, 163, 164, 173, 193, 204, 207, 215

George, Bishop of the Arabs, 8, 43

Gharāʾib al-qurʿān, 189

Ghars al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Khalīl al-Ḥalabī, 115, 180, 181

Ghazālī, Abū Ḥāmid al-, 3, 21, 23, 25, 126, 127, 181, 234–246, 254

God, existence of, 174, 175

Golden Age, 23, 65, 236, 242, 243

Grafton, Anthony, 205

Gravitation, universal, 215

Greco-Roman legacy, 3

Greece and Greeks, 33, 41, 228

Greek books in Isfahan, 38, 39, 43

Greek language, 58, 195

Greek science, 18, 22, 40, 41, 61, 72, 78, 93, 108, 122, 232

Greek tradition, 128, 168, 234, 238, 240

Gregory Chioniades. See Chioniades

Gregory XIII, Pope, 229, 230

Gutas, Dimitri, 10

Ḥabash al-Ḥāsib, 18, 19, 89

Ḥadīth, 73, 234

Ḥads (conjecture), 118. 119, 152

Ḥajjāj b. Ma3ar, al-), 17, 19, 48, 67–70, 79, 80, 92, 93, 126, 131

Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf, al-, 45, 53, 59

Ḥākimī, al-, 63

Ḥall mā lā yanḥall, 242

Ḥammādī, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, 116

Ḥanbal, Aḥmad b,14

Ḥarrān, 5–7

Hartner, Willy, 199, 200, 218

Hārūn al-Rashīd, 11, 17, 30

Hayʿa (configuration), 18, 19, 68, 78, 90, 94, 100, 102, 108, 114–118, 127, 128, 133, 171–178, 186–189

Hazārāt, 37

Heliocentrism, 120, 164, 193, 205, 207, 215, 216

Hellenism, 74

Hermes, 31–33

Hermes the Babylonian, 33

Hernandez, Francisco, 253

Hero of Alexandria, 237

Ḥikāya (al-Nadīm), 30, 35, 36, 41, 44–46

Hipparchus, 34, 125

Ḥisba, 57

Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik, 45

History of Nations (Māshāʾallāh), 34

Horoscopes, 15, 16, 31, 41

Hospitals, 254

Ḥubaish b. al-Ḥasan, 48, 75

Hulagu Khan, 235, 243

Ḥunain b. Isḥāq, 5, 14, 18, 48, 61–64, 68, 71, 75, 77

Hypatia, 6, 7

ʿIbādī, 62

Ibn AbīUṣaybiʿa, 62

Ibn al-ʿAmīd, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusain, Abū al-Faḋl, 38

Ibn al-Asḥath, uprising of, 45

Ibn al-Baiṭār, 21

Ibn Bāja, 120

Ibn al-Biṭrīq, 48

Ibn al-Haitham (Alhazen), 24, 25, 97–109, 113, 116, 132, 133, 140, 235, 239, 240

Ibn Ḥamdūn, 63

Ibn Khaldūn, 39, 59

Ibn Mamātī, 56

Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, 42, 74

Ibn al-Nafīs, 21, 24, 25, 129, 187, 239, 240, 243

Ibn Qutayba, 54, 55, 59

Ibn Rushd (Averroes), 120, 149, 150, 179, 184, 210, 211, 220, 231

Ibn Shahrām, Abū Isḥāq, 48

Ibn al-Shāṭir, 21, 84, 85, 113, 121–123, 138, 140, 143, 144, 151, 154, 161–165, 169, 170, 179, 184, 185, 189–197, 204–214, 220, 237, 240

Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), 95, 116, 169, 187, 210, 211, 229

Ibn Ṭāriq. See Yaʿqūb b. Ṭāriq Ibn Ṭufayl, 120

Ibn al-Ukhuwwa, 57

Ibṭāl al-buhtān, 96

Ikhtilāf al-zījāt,36

Ilkhanids, 188, 202, 243

Illustrations (mithālāt), 238

Impossible, 98, 99, 101, 106, 107, 135, 140, 152

Inclination, 109, 147–149. See also

Ecliptic India and Indians, 3, 4, 9, 11, 18–20, 32, 33, 36, 37, 43, 72, 74, 150, 246, 250, 251

Instruments, 19, 20, 81–83, 133, 189, 202, 221–226, 244, 246

Intellectual history of Islamic civilization, 71

Introduction to Astrology, 39

Iran, 250

Iraq, 33

Iṣfahan, 36–38, 236

Isḥāq b. Ḥunain, 69, 70, 75, 93, 126

Ishkālāt, 111, 115, 116

Islamic civilization, 234–236

Islamic world, 188, 195, 196, 247–253

Istakhr, 32

Istidrāk, 94, 150, 167, 177

Jābir Ibn Aflaḥ, 100

Jabr, al-, 18

Jāḥizʿ, ʿAmr b. Baḥr al-, 33, 76

Jahshiyārī, 53–59

Jai Singh II, 246

Jāmasp, the wise, 32

Jāmiʿusʿul al-ḥadīth, 189

Jamīl, 59

Jazarī, al-, 21, 237, 238, 240

Jibrāʾīl b. Bakhtīshūʿ, 75

Job of Edessa, 43

Julius, Flavius Claudius, 7, 8, 41–44

Jundīshāpūr, 5, 41, 62, 76, 77

Jūzjānī, AbūʿUbayd, al-, 95, 116, 169

Kabīra wa-l-saghīra, 198

Kennedy, Edward S., 196

Kepler, Johannes, 205

Khafīf ghulām ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā, 222

Khafrī, Shams al-Dīn, al-, 21, 115, 123, 124, 129, 154, 161, 165–169, 183, 190, 193, 204, 206, 237, 240, 242

Khālid b. Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya (ḥakīm ʿāl Marwān), 45–51

Khamāʾirī, Muḥammad b. Fattūḥ, al-, 223, 224

Kharaqī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Jabbār, al-, 218

Khārij ʿan al-sʿināʾa, 110, 148, 156

Khārija ʿan al-qiyās, 100

Khujandī, al, 83, 133

Khwārizmī, Muḥammad b. Mūsā, al-, 17, 18, 19, 54

Khwārizmī al-Kātib, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Yūsuf, al-, 56

Kindī, al-, 36

King, David, 223, 224

Kitāb al-anwāʾ, 55

Kitāb al-awāʾil, 50

Kitāb al-hayʿa, 117

Kitāb al-Nahmaṭān, 30

Kitāb Qawānīn al-dawawīn, 56

Kitāb al-wuzarāʾ wa-l-kuttāb, 53

Kūhī, Abū Sahl, al-, 83

Kushtaj, kitāb al-, 32

Kuttāb, 45, 55, 56, 60

Latitude theory, 101, 107, 149, 155, 156, 198

Laurentiana library, 220, 227, 229

Lawāmiʿ, al-, 114, 116

Lemerle, Paul, 7, 43, 125

Leo Africanus, dc 1550, 226

Leon the mathematician, 7

Limits, concept of, 183

Line, imaginary, 98

Maʾālim al-qurbā, 57

Maʾārij, al-, 116

Macedonia, 32

Madkour, Ibrahim, 241

Maestlin, 205

Mafātīḥal-ʿulūm, 56

Maghribī, Muḥyī al-Dīn, al-, 116

Mahdī, al-, Abbasid caliph, 11

Malaṭiya, 188

Mamluks, 188, 235

Maʾmūn, al-, 11, 13, 15, 17, 43, 47, 48, 51, 52, 63, 65, 70, 81, 83, 234

Manshūrāt, 106

Manṣūr b. Sarjūn, 45

Manṣūr, al-, 11, 15, 17, 31, 74

Manṣūrīya (Dashtaghī), 114, 116

Marāgha observatory, 133, 155, 188,202, 243, 244, 246

Mardānshāh, 45

Marw, 7

Māshāʾallāh al-Fārisī, 15, 34

Mashhūr, 240

Masrūrīya madrasa, 187

Mathematics, 122, 123, 129, 151, 164–169, 172, 190, 193, 210, 212, 215, 216, 232

Mavroudi, 7, 22

Mawālīd, 41

Mecca, 19

Medicine, 128, 187, 237, 240, 246, 252, 253

Medici Oriental Press, 228, 229 Medizin im Islam, 228

Menelaos, 88

Mercury, 145–148

Mesquinerie, 23, 198

Mexico, 252, 253

Meyerhof, Max, 7

Miḥna, 13

Mīqāt, ʿilm al-, 78, 103, 127, 171, 186, 187, 247

Mīram Çelebī, 114

Missionaries, 228

Moon, 79, 80, 85, 97, 134, 141, 143, 158, 165, 230

Morayel, 76

Muʿaddil al-masīr. See Equant

Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān, 45

Mughal empire, 250

Muḥālāt, 95–98, 101, 102, 135, 141, 145–147, 154, 155, 174, 178, 215

Mulūk al-ṭawāʾif, 32

Mumtaḥan, 83, 86

Muntaha al-idrāk, 218

Mūsā, Banū, 15, 20, 48, 64, 237, 238.

See also Shākir Muʿtasʿim, al- 63

Mutawakkil, al-, 14, 15, 63, 68, 75, 77, 238

Muʿtazilites, 13, 48, 51, 52, 65, 70, 234

Muwaqqit, 162, 189, 243. See also Ibn al-Shāṭir

Nadīm, Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad b. Abī Yaʿqūb Isḥāq, al-, 11, 28–31, 35–52, 58, 68, 70, 74, 75, 126

Nahmaṭān, kitāb al-, 30, 31

Naql qadīm, 76

Nau, François , 24, 43

Nawbakht, 10, 15, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 49, 61

Needham, Joseph, 248

Netherlands, 223–225

Neugebauer, Otto, 22, 196–199, 214, 217

New Spain, 252

Newtonian world, 122, 215

New World, 250–255 Nihāyat al-idrāk (Shīrāzī), 160

Nihāyat al-sūl fītaṣḥīḥ al-usʿūl, 164, 196

Niʿmatallah, Ighnāṭyūs (Nehemias), 227–230

Nīsābūrī, Niẓām al-Dīn, al, 189, 240

Nishwār al-Muḥāḍara, 36

Nodes, 141

Numerals, 3, 223

Nuqṭat al-muḥādhāt. See Prosneusis

Observatories, 133, 202, 244, 246, 254

Optics, 21, 97, 108, 237–240, 246

Orientalists, 69, 226, 227, 235

Orsini, Paolo, 228, 230

Oscillation, 110, 148, 155, 156, 158, 181, 184, 207

Osmania, 94

Ottomans, 194, 219, 221, 225, 250

Paul, the Persian, 8

Paulus Alexandrinus, 6, 8

Persia and Persians, 10–12, 37, 38, 41, 42, 45, 49, 58–62, 65, 66, 71–74, 195, 224

Phaedrus, the Greek, 33

Philip II, 253

Philo of Byzantium, 237

Philosophy, 7, 8, 41, 42, 44, 49, 184, 190

Physicians, 62, 187

Pingree, David, 22

Pīrī, 45, 76

Planetary Hypotheses, 90–93, 96, 97, 104–108, 134, 135, 168, 169, 176

Planetary theories, 194, 221, 236, 244, 246

Planets, 134, 138, 139, 206

Plato, 66

Pocket transmission theory, 5, 7, 9, 46, 57

Poland, 221

Postel, Guillaume, 22, 217–221, 227, 230

Prayer, times of, 134

Precession, 20, 80, 81, 125, 131, 176, 231

Printing, 228

Proclus, 199

Progress, 234

Projection, 18, 19

Prosneusis, 97, 98, 105, 110, 114, 142–144, 148, 151, 165

Ptolemy, 3, 6, 8, 12, 33, 34, 60, 66, 79, 81, 84, 88–95, 99, 100, 106, 108, 110, 119, 127, 132–134, 138, 144–148, 124, 169, 170, 176, 198, 206, 212

Pulmonary circulation, 25

Pyramids, 38

Postel, Guillaume, 22, 217–221, 227, 230

Projection, 18, 19

Qāḋīzādeh al-Rūmī, 114, 190

Qawānīn al-dawawīn, 56

Qibla, 134, 186

Quadrant, 246

Quhunduz, 37

Qusṭā b. Lūqā, 18, 48, 69, 70

Qushjī, al-, 21, 113, 114, 154, 166, 169, 204, 240

Rainbow, 239, 240

Ramnusio, Hieronimo, 230

Rashed, Roshdi, 18

Rawḋat al-taslīm, 188

Rāzī, Abū Bakr, al- (Rhazes), 25, 94, 128, 129, 235, 239

Realdo Colombo, 25

Recapitulation (istidrāk), 95. See Shukūk Rest, moment of, 182, 183

Roberts, Victor, 196

Rosenthal, Franz, 52

Rūmī, Qāḋīzādeh al-, 114

Ṣabaʾians, 49

Ṣābiʿ, Abū Hilāl al-, 83

Sabra, Abd al-Ḥamīd, 125

Safavids, 250

Safīr, al-, 114

Saint Peter, cathedral of, 222

SṢāliḥ b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, 45, 59

Salm, 48

Sangallo, Antonio de, 222, 223

Sanskrit, 74

Sarjūn b. Manṣūr, 37, 38, 45, 46, 59, 63

Sāsān, 32

Sawād, al-, 31, 42

Sayf al-Dawla, 49

Seasons method, 81

Sergius of Rasʿaina, 8, 43, 60

Servetus, Michael, 25, 222, 231

Severus Sebokht, 8, 9, 43, 60

Sextant, 246

Shāfiʿī law, 187

Shahriyār, zīj, 11, 16, 37, 39, 40

Shākir, 20, 48, 64, 92, 93, 94, 132, 176, 177, 235

Shāpūr, 33, 34

Shāpūr, Dhū al-Aktāf (Shāpūr II), 41, 42

Sharbe noukronoye, 24

Sharḥal-majisṭī, 189, 190

Sheshwīh, 45

Shīʿism, 250

Shīrāzī, Quṭb al-Dīn, al-, 21, 96, 116, 154, 158–161, 165–169, 183, 184, 188, 189, 203, 204, 212, 239, 240

Shirwānī, Mulla Fatḥallah, al-, 190

Shuʿūbīya, 33, 76, 126

Shukūk, 24, 25, 94–97, 111, 115, 127, 128, 131, 150, 167, 178, 235, 239

Sībawaih, 77

Sidhanta, 16

Siftah, 37

Sijistān, 45

Sijistānī, Abū Sulaimān al-Manṭiqī, al-, 48

Simplicity, 139, 140, 178

SṢināʾa al-, 18, 107

Sindhind, 16

Sine, 88, 187

Sinjār, desert of, 14

Siphon, 237

Sīvas, 188

Slanting, 109

Slave labor, 250, 251

South Asia, 251

Spain, 223, 253

Spheres, 92, 93, 98, 104, 121, 132–135, 140, 141, 163, 168, 174, 176, 177, 179, 216

Stars, fixed, 86, 87, 93, 162, 163, 176, 184, 185

Ṣūfī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, 87

Suleiman the Magnificent, 219

Sun, 20, 81–85, 90, 126, 136, 165, 230, 231

Sundials, 189

Sūrat al-ikhlāṣ, 50

Ṣuwar al-Kawākib, 87

Swerdlow, Noel, 207–209, 217

Syriac, 6–9, 24, 43, 44, 62, 65, 66, 74, 75, 227

Ṭahmūrath, 37

Tadaḥruj, 107

Tadhkira, 109, 111, 113, 116, 156, 158,

197, 217

Tahāfut al-falāsifa, 3, 234

Taḥrīr (Ṭūsī), 84, 88, 89, 109, 156, 158, 198

Tajrīd al-iʿtqād, 188

Takmila fī sharḥal-tadhkira, 190

Taʿlīq al-arsʿād, 164

Tamīmī, ʿAlī b. Ziyād, al-, 16

Tanbīh al-nuqqād, 115

Tangent, 88

Tannūkhī, 36

Tānqarūs, 31

Taqī al-Dīn b. Maʾrūf, 247

Ta ʿrīkh al-ḥukamāʾ(Qifṭī), 83

Tarkīb al-aflāk, 16, 116

Tarkībun mā, 185

Taṣḥīḥ al-usʿūl, 161

Tashrīḥal-aflāk, 115, 116

Taseo, Ambroseo, 230 Ṭawāʾif, mulūk, al-, 32

Ṭawāmīr, 51

Tawḥīd, ahl al-, 13, 48, 51

Tetrabiblos (Ptolemy), 12, 134

Teukreus, 31

Thābit b. Qurra, 48

Themistius, 41

Theodoros, 45

Theorizing, 28, 71, 164, 165. See also Ḥads

Tihon, Ann, 22

Tīnkalūs, 31

Tīnqarūs, 31

Toomer, Gerald, 100

Trade, 250–252

Transoxania, 10

Trebizond, 221

Trigonometry, 18, 19, 67, 88, 89, 150, 171, 186, 187

Tuḥfa shāhīya, 116, 160

Turkey, 227

Ṭūsī Couple, 110, 111, 154–158, 181, 184, 188, 197–200, 205, 206, 211–214, 217, 218, 221, 241, 244

Ṭūsī, Nasʿīr al-Dīn, al-, 21, 24, 84, 88–90, 109–113, 116, 148, 151, 155–161, 169, 181, 188, 198–202, 209–213, 217, 218, 228, 240, 243, 244

Tūz, 36, 37

Ulugh Beg, 189, 190, 244

ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb, 54

Umayyads, 10, 16, 47, 58, 68, 74, 162

Uqlīdisī, 19

ʿUrḍī, Muʿayyad al-Dīn, al-, 21, 24, 106, 107, 113, 117, 118, 123, 133, 144, 151–155, 158–163, 166, 169, 180, 202–206, 209–214, 218, 240, 243, 244

Uṣūl, 161

Valve, conic, 237, 238

Vatican Library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), 214, 217

Vaux, Carra de, 23, 24, 197, 198

Vesalius, 232

Vetius Valens, 11

Void, 237, 238

Wāthiq, al-, 63

Wazzān, Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al(Leo Africanus), 226, 227, 228, 230

Wīd, 45

Widmanstadt, Jean-Albert, 227, 230

Wisdom, House of (Bait al-ḥikma), 48

Yaʿqūb b. Ṭāriq, 16, 74

Yūḥannā b. Māsawayh, 48, 62–65, 68

Yūḥannā, 38, 76

Zādān Farrūkh b. Pīrī, 45, 53, 59, 63

Zaradasht, 32

Zamān, Huḥammad, 224

Zīj, 11, 40, 83, 127, 132, 134, 191

Zoroaster, 32

Zoroastrians, 58