Khalid AlAjaji <blockquote>[[File:Arsh alJawza.png|thumb|Star chart of the Arabian asterism Arsh alJawza (عرش الجوزاء) in the area of the constellation Lepus.]]'''Concordance'''
'''Headword (Arabic):''' عَرْشُ الجَوْزَاءِ
'''Headword (Arabic):''' عَرْشُ الجَوْزَاءِ
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Authors: Khalid Al-Ajaji, Susanne M Hoffmann, Roland Laffitte
Arshaljawza (عرش الجوزاء), the Throne of Al Jawza, is an Arabian asterism
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Star chart of the Arabian asterism Arsh alJawza (عرش الجوزاء) in the area of the constellation Lepus.
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.[1]– 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.[5] – 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.[6] – 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.
Jawza with adjacent asterisms (CC BY Roland Laffitte 2025).
Arsh al-Jauzah (δ Lep : 3,8) / أرش Introduit à la fin du XXe siècle, ce nom est cArš al-Ğawzā’, « le Repose-pied d’Elgeuze », qui correspond au groupe αβγδ Lep (voir aussi α Lep). Ar. cArš 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.
Arsh al-Jauzah (δ Lep: 3.8) / أرش Introduced at the end of the 20th century, this name is cArš al-Ğawzā’, ‘Elgeuze’s Footrest’, which corresponds to the αβγδ Lep group (see also α Lep). Ar. cArš 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.
Discussion
IAU Working Group Star Names
The name was suggested to WGSN in 2026.
Weblinks
Reference
↑ 1.01.1Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallah b. Muslim. 1956. Kitāb al-anwāʾ (fī mawāsim al-ʿArab). Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyya.
↑Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
↑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.
↑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.
↑al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. Kitāb al-kawākib. Critical edition with commentary by Khalid al-Ajaji, digital edition 2021. (online)
