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Dalen, Benno van
« The Activities of Iranian Astronomers in Mongol China », in : N. Pourjavady & Ž. Vesel, éds., Sciences, techniques et instruments dans le monde iranien (Xe-XIXe siècle). Téhéran, Presses Universitaires d'Iran / Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 2004, pp. 17-28.

This article deals with two specifically Iranian aspects of the works that were used by the Muslim astronomers who had been brought to Beijing by the Mongols in the last third of the 13th century. Two of these works, an astronomical handbook (zīj) compiled in China on the basis of new observations and the popular astrology by Kūshyār ibn Labbān (ca. 1000), were translated into Chinese in 1383. Transliterations of the titles of some other works and of various astronomical instruments were listed in Chinese historical annals. The author gives an overview of these transliterations, which can clearly be seen to have been made from the Persian and not from the Arabic and which have not yet all been explained. He also discusses the true solar calendar that is used in the zīj compiled in China, which can be seen to be very similar to the Malikī calendar devised in 1079 by ‘Umar al-Khayyām and others for the Seljuk sultan Malikshāh.

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Rédaction. Dalen, Benno van, « The Activities of Iranian Astronomers in Mongol China », in : N. Pourjavady & Ž. Vesel, éds., Sciences, techniques et instruments dans le monde iranien (Xe-XIXe siècle). Téhéran, Presses Universitaires d'Iran / Institut Français de Recherche en Iran, 2004, pp. 17-28., Abstracta Iranica [En ligne], Volume 27, mis en ligne le : 2 janvier 2007. URL http://abstractairanica.revues.org/document6295.html. Consulté le 8 janvier 2009.