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The Light of the World

Astronomy in al-Andalus

Joseph ibn Nahmias author Robert G Morrison translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:8th Apr '16

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This book contains an edition - with an extensive introduction, translation and commentary - of The Light of the World, a text on theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between Jewish and Islamic thought in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. The text's most lasting effect may have been exerted via its passage to Renaissance Italy, where it influenced scholars at the University of Padua in the early sixteenth century. With its crucial role in the development of European astronomy, as well as the physical sciences under Islam and in Jewish culture, The Light of the World is an important episode in Islamic intellectual history, Jewish civilization, and the history of astronomy.

"Morrison has carried out an outstanding and exceedingly demanding undertaking for which we all must be grateful." * Journal for the History of Astronomy *

ISBN: 9780520287990

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm

Weight: unknown

448 pages