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Latest revision as of 11:02, 9 June 2026
Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann
Al-Sarfah (... ), The change to colder weather, is an Arabic/ Arabian asterism and lunar station composed of one star: β Leo (Denebola).
<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
<our opnion>
Formerly, Kunitzsch (1961)[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] | |
| ... | |
| Al-Marzūqī (d. 421 H / 1030)[4] | |
| ... |
Discussion
Image Variants, Transfer and Transformation
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ancient manuscript 1 -
Laffitte's mapping
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something else ...
Verbal Discussion/ Conclusion
different opinions by modern scholars - e.g. Adams[5], Laffitte (2012[6], 2025[7]), AlAjaji, Kunitzsch, Ideler ...
| Header text | Adams | AlAjaji | Laffitte |
|---|---|---|---|
| Example | Example | Example | Example |
| Star Name | beta | alpha | gamma |
| Example | Example | Example | Example |
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IAU Working Group Star Names
The name cannot be used for naming a star, as it refers to a single star-asterism whose star is already named.
Weblinks
Reference
- ↑ Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 ه. 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).
- ↑ Danielle Adams, Rain Stars Set, Lunar Stations Rise, 2018
- ↑ Roland Laffitte, Le ciel des Arabes, 2012
- ↑ Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe, Orient des Mots, 2025 (online)
