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==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]

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wrt English translation

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]

References

The references contained two instances were a book was fully cited multiple times. I changed this to <ref name="Savage-Smith"/> and to <ref name="Dolan"/>; converting 23 full references into just two. I hope I did not mess anything up, and ask other editors to clean up any errors I introduced. Thanks, Nick Beeson (talk) 17:13, 23 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in the 9th century AD, the book was written in Arabic, the common language for scholars across the vast Islamic territories, although the author himself was Persian. It was an attempt to create a synthesis of the comprehensive star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest (books VII and VIII) with the indigenous Arabic astronomical traditions on the constellations (notably the Arabic constellation system of the Anwā'). The original manuscript no longer survives as an autograph, however, the Book of Stars has survived in later-made copies. This image from the book shows the constellation of Orion, in mirror image as if on a celestial globe, and is from a copy in the Bodleian Library dated to the 12th century AD.

Ilustration credit: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

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