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Al-Tarikh, A Book of Annals. No Direct Manuscript Survives However, A Copy Had Reached

Ibn al-Nadim mentions al-Khwārizmī's book of annals called Kitab al-Tarikh. While no direct manuscripts survive, a copy had reached Nisibis by 1000 AD where the metropolitan Elias bar Shinaya quoted from it. Several Arabic manuscripts in Berlin, Istanbul, Tashkent, Cairo and Paris likely contain further material from al-Khwārizmī, including a paper on sundials and papers on spherical astronomy and determining the direction of Mecca. Two texts focused on determining morning width and azimuth from a height. Al-Khwārizmī also wrote two books on using and constructing astrolabes.

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Al-Tarikh, A Book of Annals. No Direct Manuscript Survives However, A Copy Had Reached

Ibn al-Nadim mentions al-Khwārizmī's book of annals called Kitab al-Tarikh. While no direct manuscripts survive, a copy had reached Nisibis by 1000 AD where the metropolitan Elias bar Shinaya quoted from it. Several Arabic manuscripts in Berlin, Istanbul, Tashkent, Cairo and Paris likely contain further material from al-Khwārizmī, including a paper on sundials and papers on spherical astronomy and determining the direction of Mecca. Two texts focused on determining morning width and azimuth from a height. Al-Khwārizmī also wrote two books on using and constructing astrolabes.

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Ibn al-Nadim in his Kitab al-Fihrist (an index of Arabic books) mentions al-Khwrizm's Kitab al-Tarikh, a book of annals.

No direct manuscript survives; however, a copy had reached Nisibis by the 1000s, where its metropolitan, Elias bar Shinaya, found it. Elias's chronicle quotes it from "the death of the Prophet" through to 169 AH, at which point Elias's text itself hits a lacuna.[30] Several Arabic manuscripts in Berlin, Istanbul, Tashkent, Cairo and Paris contain further material that surely or with some probability comes from al-Khwrizm. The Istanbul manuscript contains a paper on sundials; the Fihrist credits al-Khwrizm with Kitb ar-Rukhma(t). Other papers, such as one on the determination of the direction of Mecca, are on the spherical astronomy. Two texts deserve special interest on the morning width (Marifat saat al-mashriq f kull balad) and the determination of the azimuth from a height (Marifat al-samt min qibal al-irtif). He also wrote two books on using and constructing astrolabes.

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