Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit : : Al-Birjandī on Tadhkira II, Chapter 11 and its Sanskrit Translation / / edited by Takanori Kusuba, David Pingree.

• Superior document: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ; 47
• Author: Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn, active 16th century.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kusuba, Takanori,; Pingree, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies ; 47.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book provides the first presentation of the bilingual textual material that illustrates the transmission of Islamic astronomy to scientists of the Indian Sanskritic tradition. It includes editions of the chapter of the Tadhkira in which the mid-thirteenth century Persian astronomer, Nasīr al-d...