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Image that shows the earliest map or drawing
Image that shows the cultural object (e.g. in archaeological museum)

... (... ), [translation], is an Arabic/ Arabian asterism. <here comes a short explanation: what is the earliest known occurance, what does it mean in their culture, perhaps were it stems from if e.g. taken over from Babylonian roots...>


Provenance, Etymology, History

Variants (in spelling, in name)

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Etymology

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Formerly, Kunitzsch (1959)[1] mentioned ... (English translation)

Sources and Identification

Sources Identification(s)
Ibn Qutayba (d. 276 H / 889)[2]
orig. & transl. identification (map)
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Al-Ṣūfī (d. 376 H / 986)[3]
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Al-Marzūqī (d. 421 H / 1030)[4]
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Discussion

Image Variants, Transfer and Transformation

Verbal Discussion/ Conclusion

different opinions by modern scholars - e.g. Adams[5], Laffitte (2012[6], 2025[7]), AlAjaji, Kunitzsch, Ideler ...


Deviating Identifications?
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IAU Working Group Star Names

Reference

  1. Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. الإمام أبو علي أحمد بن محمد بن الحسن المرزوقي (توفي سنة 421 هـ)، الأزمنة والأمكنة، تحقيق د. محمد نايف الدليمي، عالم الكتب، بيروت، لبنان، 1422 هـ، الجزء الثاني، ص 349. Al-Marzūqī, Abū ʿAli Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥassan (died 1030), Al-Azminah wa al-amkinah (Times and Places), Edition by Dr. Mohammad Nayef al-Dulaymi, (Arabic print of the original book in 2002, World of Books, Beirut, Lebanon), vol 2, pg 345.
  5. Danielle Adams, Rain Stars Set, Lunar Stations Rise, 2018
  6. Roland Laffitte, Le ciel des Arabes, 2012
  7. Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe, Orient des Mots, 2025 (online)