Eighteenth-Century Identified Copies of MāšāʾAllāh’s Kitāb Qiyām al-Ḫulafāʾ from Yemen
Text Edition and Contextualization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21655206 |
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| Authors | Anne Regourd (0009-0006-2115-4924, Chercheur, CNRS Paris France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 270-291 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quaderni di Studi Arabi (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1121-2306 • E-ISSN: 2667-016X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/2667016x-15010215 |
| OpenAlex | W3117337828 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
A copy of the Kitāb Qiyām al-Ḫulafāʾ (Book on the reign of Rulers) , identified in Ḏamār, Yemen, in 1993, is dated 8 Ǧumādā Awwal 1150 AH (= Sept. 1737 AD ). Under the name of the famous Jewish astrologer MāšāʾAllāh, who practised at the early ʿAbbasid Court together with the Banū Nawbaḫt, this book displays the horoscopes of the Prophet Muhammad and of the caliphs up to Hārūn al-Rašīd. E.S. Kennedy & D. Pingree offered an English translation of the Kitāb Qiyām al-Ḫulafāʾ in The Astrological History of MāšāʾAllāh , Cambridge (MA), Harvard U. Press, 1971, Appendix 2, on the basis of “two late manuscripts”, one from Berlin, the other at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Since then, K. Yamamoto & Ch. Burnett have edited the text on the basis of three manuscripts, adding one from Bursa, and offered a revised English translation. Meanwhile, I came upon a second copy of the book in Ṣanʿāʾ. The copy preserved at the Waqf Library of Ḏamār belonged to the personal collection of a Yemeni cadi, who was a divinatory practitioner ( munaǧǧim ). At the intersection of textual studies and field work, this paper, following an introduction to the text, will concentrate on the circulation of the 1150/1737 manuscript and its potential uses
Art · Political science · Politics · Reign · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classics · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law
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