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YAHYA BIN MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD BIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-HATTAN AL-RU'AYNI AL-MAKKI (D. 1586-87 AD): KITAB 'UMDAT AL-AHBAB LI-MA'RIFAT MA YAHTAJ ILAYHI MIN 'ILM AL-FALAK 'ALA TARIQ AL-HISAB

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, MECCA, HIJAZ, DATED 18 RABI' I AH 968/7 DECEMBER 1560 AD

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YAHYA BIN MUHAMMAD BIN MUHAMMAD BIN 'ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-HATTAN AL-RU'AYNI AL-MAKKI (D. 1586-87 AD): KITAB 'UMDAT AL-AHBAB LI-MA'RIFAT MA YAHTAJ ILAYHI MIN 'ILM AL-FALAK 'ALA TARIQ AL-HISAB
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, MECCA, HIJAZ, DATED 18 RABI' I AH 968/7 DECEMBER 1560 AD
On astronomy, Arabic manuscript on paper, 9ff., two fly-leaves, 27ll. of tight black naskh to the page, titles and some words in red, green and yellow, one table, catchwords, opening bifolio with possibly original large bismillah in red thuluth, some marginal notes, the opening folio a later replacement, colophon with date and signature, in paper covered binding, trimmed, areas of waterstaining to the upper border, otherwise relatively clean
Folio 8 x 5¾in. (20.1 x 14.5cm.)

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The author is recorded in Zirikli's Al-A'lam, vol. VIII, p. 169. He was born in Mecca where he lived all his life as a Maliki faqih (jurist). Al-Hattan wrote other works on astronomy such as Wasila al-tullab fi 'ilm al-falak bi tariq al-hisab. He died in Mecca in 1567 AD.

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