#qazwini

[immoraltales]

Güneş Aslan Burcunda Zekeriya bin Mahmut el Kazvinî (1202-1283) – Acâibul-Mahlûkât ve Garaibû’l-Mevcudat, Princeton Üniversitesi.

Sun in Leo ʻAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʾib al-mawjūdāt - Princeton University

Acâibul-Mahlûkât ve Garaibû’l-Mevcudat, (Tuhaf Yaratıklar ve Acayip Varlıklar), isimli Arapça astronomi eseri yazan Kazvini, Dünyanın küre şeklinde olduğunu belirtmiş, hava, su, bitki, hayvan ve madenlerden detaylı olarak bahsetmiş, dağ, dere, ada, deniz ve nehirlerin oluşumu hakkında görüşler belirtmiştir.

[klavier]

Tile with two rabbits, two snakes and a tortoise. Illustration for Zakariya al-Qazwini's book, Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing (13th century). Earthenware, molded and underglaze-painted decoration. Iran, 19th century.

Marvels of creatures and strange things existing

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Sample illustrations from a richly illuminated 16th Century [CE] copy of the Persian version of Qazwini's ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʼib al-mawjūdāt, "The marvels of creation and the oddities of existence", commonly known as "The cosmography of Qazwini".. originally from the 13th Century.

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Cambridge University Library

[brassmanticore]

Folio showing the sphere and symbol of the moon (recto) and phases of the moon (verso)

From an Aja'ib al-makhluqat (Wonders of Creation by al-Qazvini),  Iraq or Eastern Turkey, early 15th century

According to Al-Qazvini the sphere of the moon lies between the sphere of fire and the sphere of Mercury. It completes its orbit every 28 days moving from east to west in the sky.  Because the moon's orbit is the smallest of all the heavenly spheres it moves the fastest and is thus known as "The Runner." The moon's movements affect the tides of large bodies of water and also have power over animals and men. The moon remains only two and a half days in each sign of the zodiac. 

(Freer-Sackler F1954.33)

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The Wonder of the Creation DSC09095b by Basil Adilnor Via Flickr: A world atlas: A manuscript copy of "Marvels of Creatures and Strange Things Existing, 17th century. Abu Yahya Zakariya' ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini (أبو يحيئ زكريا بن محمد القزويني) (born 1203 - died 1283), was a Persian physician, astronomer, geographer and proto-science fiction writer. Born in the Persian town of Qazvin, he is descended from Anas ibn Malik, Zakariya' ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini served as legal expert and judge (qadhi) in several localities in Persia and at Baghdad. He travelled around in Mesopotamia and Syria, and finally entered the circle patronized by the governor of Baghdad, ‘Ata-Malik Juwayni (d. 1283 CE). It was to the latter that al-Qazwini dedicated his famous Arabic-language cosmography titled 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات ("Marvels of Creatures and Strange Things Existing"). This treatise, frequently illustrated, was immensely popular and is preserved today in many copies. It was translated into Persian and Turkish. Qazwini was also well-known for his geographical dictionary, Athar al-bilad wa-akhbar al-‘ibad اثار البلاد واخبار العباد ("Monument of Places and History of God's Bondsmen"). Both of these treatises reflect extensive reading and learning in a wide range of disciplines. Al-Qazwini also wrote a futuristic proto-science fiction Arabic tale entitled Awaj bin Anfaq, about a man who travelled to Earth from a distant planet.

[ark-of-ahlulbayt]

#ImamHussain #Quote #Karbala #Turbah #Qazwini #ProphetYusuf

[abdullahbasaran]

Israfel*

In Heaven a spirit doth dwell

   “Whose heart-strings are a lute”;   

None sing so wildly well

As the angel Israfel,

And the giddy stars (so legends tell),   

Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell   

   Of his voice, all mute.

Tottering above

   In her highest noon,

   The enamoured moon

Blushes with love,

   While, to listen, the red levin   

   (With the rapid Pleiads, even,   

   Which were seven,)

   Pauses in Heaven.

And they say (the starry choir   

   And the other listening things)   

That Israfeli’s fire

Is owing to that lyre

   By which he sits and sings—   

The trembling living wire

   Of those unusual strings.

But the skies that angel trod,

   Where deep thoughts are a duty,   

Where Love’s a grown-up God,

   Where the Houri glances are   

Imbued with all the beauty

   Which we worship in a star.

Therefore, thou art not wrong,   

   Israfeli, who despisest

An unimpassioned song;

To thee the laurels belong,

   Best bard, because the wisest!   

Merrily live, and long!

The ecstasies above

   With thy burning measures suit—   

Thy grief, thy joy, thy hate, thy love,

   With the fervour of thy lute—

   Well may the stars be mute!

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this

   Is a world of sweets and sours;

   Our flowers are merely—flowers,   

And the shadow of thy perfect bliss

   Is the sunshine of ours.

If I could dwell

Where Israfel

   Hath dwelt, and he where I,

He might not sing so wildly well

   A mortal melody,

While a bolder note than this might swell   

   From my lyre within the sky.

  Edgar Allan Poe

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*The angel Israfel, whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God’s creatures. —KORAN

[Painting: "The Angel Israfil" from al-Qazwini's Aja'ib al-Makhluqat]

[ilmalyaqeen]

Sayyid Mostafa al-Qazwini on Azadari