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Arshaljawza (عرش الجوزاء), the Throne of [[Jawza|Al Jawza]], is an Arabian asterism 
<ref name=":0">Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallah b. Muslim. 1956. ''Kitāb al-anwāʾ (fī mawāsim al-ʿArab)''. Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyya.</ref>
<ref>Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. ''Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber.'' Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.</ref>
<ref>al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. 1981. ''Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniya wa al-arbaʿīn.'' Beirut: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīda.</ref>

==Concordance, Etymology, History==

Adams (2018),<ref>Danielle Adams, ''Rain Stars Set, Lunar Stations Rise'', 2018</ref> pp. xx-xx. 

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[[File:Jawza laffitte202 kursiX5.jpg|thumb|Jawza with adjacent asterisms (CC BY Roland Laffitte 2025).]]

'''Concordance'''

'''Headword (Arabic):''' عَرْشُ الجَوْزَاءِ

'''Transliteration:''' ʿArsh al‑Jawzāʾ

'''IPA:''' ʕurʃul.dʒaw.zaːʔ

'''Gloss:''' “The Throne of al‑Jawzāʾ” – a quadrilateral asterism beneath the feet of al‑Jawzāʾ (Orion). Within the constellation ''al-Arnab'' (Lepus) lie four stars arranged in a quadrilateral pattern that Arabs referred to as ''ʿArsh al-Jawzāʾ'' (“the Throne of al-Jawzāʾ”) and ''Kursi al-Jawzāʾ al-Muʾakhkhar'' (“the Rear Chair of al-Jawzāʾ”). These designations derive from their position below the feet of ''al-Jawzāʾ'' (Orion). The “rear” qualifier distinguishes this group from the ''Front Chair of al-Jawzāʾ'' (''al-Muqaddam''), located within the constellation ''al-Nahr'' (Eridanus), which similarly consists of four stars in an analogous configuration near Orion’s left foot.

'''Corpus and scope:'''

Occurrences in early Arabic astronomical, poetic, and cosmographical literature, with particular attention to constellation and anwāʾ texts.

# Ibn Qutaybah (d. 889 CE), pp. 45–46.<ref name=":0" />– Classifies al‑Jawzāʾ among the southern (Yamānī) constellations, notes its alternative name al‑Jabbār (“the Giant / the Mighty One”), likened to a king seated on a throne, and describes Kursi al‑Jawzāʾ as four stars forming an irregular quadrilateral beneath Orion.
# Al‑Marzūqī (d. 1030 CE), 2nd vol., p. 246.<ref>Al-Marzūqī, Abū ʿAli Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥassan (d. 1030), Al-Azminah wa al-amkinah (Times and Places), critical edition by dr. Mohammad Nayef al-Dulaymi, Arabic print of the original book in 2002, World of Books, Beirut, Lebanon.</ref> – States that beneath each of Orion’s legs there is a set of four stars termed ''Kursi al‑Jawzāʾ'' and notes that one of the two “chairs” is more conspicuous than the other.
# Al-Ṣūfī (ʿAbd  al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī, (d. 986 CE), Kitāb al-Kawākib, p. 740.<ref>al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. ''Kitāb al-kawākib.'' Critical edition with commentary by Khalid al-Ajaji, digital edition 2021. ([https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1s6JXzftwjMQ5rgZoGE3718EtBLBZtjzr?usp=drive_link online])</ref> – in his description of ''al-Arnab'' ''(Lepus)'', states that the Arabs designated the seventh through tenth stars of Lepus—those located on its body—as ''Kursi al-Jawzāʾ al-Muʾakhkhar'' and ''ʿArsh al-Jawzāʾ'' because they lie between Orion’s two feet, in the position corresponding to a throne. Some works on ''al-Anwāʾ'' (“seasonal star risings”) also refer to these stars as ''al-Nihāl''.


Roland Laffitte (2012<ref>Roland Laffitte, ''Le ciel des Arabes'', 2012</ref>, 2025<ref>Roland Laffitte, ''Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe'', Orient des Mots, 2025 ([https://uranos.fr/500-noms-herites-des-arabes/ online])</ref>) writes: <blockquote>'''''Arsh al-Jauzah (δ Lep : 3,8) /'' أرش''' Introduit à la fin du XX<sup>e</sup> siècle, ce nom est ''<sup>c</sup>Arš al-Ğawzā’'', « le Repose-pied d’Elgeuze », qui correspond au groupe ''αβγδ Lep'' (voir aussi <sup> </sup>''α Lep''). Ar. ''<sup>c</sup>Arš al-Ğawzā’'', al-Ṣūfī p/ ''αβγδ Lep'' > ''‘Arsh AlGjauza’'', Hyde, noté ''Arsh'' p/ ''α Lep'', Allen. ''Arsh al-Jauzah,'' Rhoads. NB : cette étoile est en turc ''Ricl-ül-erneb-üş-şimâlî'' , soit « le Pied septentrional du Lièvre », tiré d’un traité en langue turque c/ Pultar. </blockquote><blockquote>'''''Arsh al-Jauzah (δ Lep: 3.8) /'' أرش''' Introduced at the end of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, this name is ''<sup>c</sup>Arš al-Ğawzā’'', ‘Elgeuze’s Footrest’, which corresponds to the ''αβγδ Lep'' group (see also  ''α Lep''). Ar. ''<sup>c</sup>Arš al-Ğawzā’'', al-Ṣūfī p/ ''αβγδ Lep'' > ''‘Arsh AlGjauza’'', Hyde, noted as ''Arsh'' p/ ''α Lep'', Allen. ''Arsh al-Jauzah,'' Rhoads. NB: this star is known in Turkish as ''Ricl-ül-erneb-üş-şimâlî'', meaning ‘the Northern Foot of the Hare’, taken from a treatise in Turkish c/ Pultar. </blockquote>

=== Discussion ===

==IAU Working Group Star Names==
The name was suggested to  WGSN in 2026. 

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