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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 24 August 2020 and 7 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Tanvi.baghele. Peer reviewers: LzrdKng.

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Assessment comment

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:The Book of Fixed Stars/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

==A synthesis of Almagest?== The claim about this work being a synthesis of Almagest with Arabic tradition is untrue. Almagest had a great influence on arabic tradition, but the subject of this book has very little overlap with Almagest - that book is about the motion of the Moon primarily and also of planets, which is the opposite "Fixed Stars" which this book is about. I propose to remove this phrasing. Kotika98 (talk) 14:04, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 14:04, 6 March 2014 (UTC). Substituted at 10:02, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

wrt English translation

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In the main text is mentioned a (2012) PhD work in progress by Ihsan HAFEZ. The completed PhD

 Hafez, Ihsan (2010) Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi and his book of the fixed stars: a journey of re-discovery.
 PhD thesis, James Cook University. 

is available

 https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/28854/

(.. waiting to be recorded here by more capable hands then mine :/ ). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.202.193.44 (talk) 15:56, 23 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]