چکیده:
The first part of the paper describes the Persian translation of
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr Kitāb Uqlīdis by Quṭb al-Dīn al-
Shīrāzī, with a primary focus on his appendix to book I. Part of a
larger encyclopedic collection, al-Shīrāzī’s translation continued
to be read for centuries. As evidence of the work’s influence, al-
Shīrāzī’s appendix to book I was included in a nineteenth century
printed edition of Muḥammad Barakat’s commentary on book I
of al-Ṭūsī’s treatise. I discuss this later use of al-Shīrāzī’s
appendix in the second part of the paper.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s Appendix to Book I of his Persian Translation of Euclid: Text, Context, Influence Gregg De Young Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science The American University in Cairo gdeyoung@aucegypt.
edu (received: July 2012, accepted: February 2013) Abstract The first part of the paper describes the Persian translation ofNaṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr Kitāb Uqlīdis by Quṭb al-Dīn al- Shīrāzī, with a primary focus on his appendix to book I.
As evidence of the work’s influence, al- Shīrāzī’s appendix to book I was included in a nineteenth century printed edition of Muḥammad Barakat’s commentary on book I of al-Ṭūsī’s treatise.
2 The complete treatise consists of an introductory essay (fātiḥah) discussing knowledge, in three sections (faṣl), followed by five major divisions (jumlah): ( Logic – divided into seven chapters (maqālah) ( Philosophy – divided into two parts (fann) ( Physics – divided into two parts (fann) ( Mathematical sciences – divided into four parts (fann): Euclidean geometry (an edited translation of al-Ṭūsī’s Arabic redaction), Ptolemy’s Almagest (a translation of the summary of the Almagest by ʿAbd al-Mālik ibn Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī), arithmetic, and music (mainly quotations from al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā, and ʿAbd-al- Muʾmin) ( Metaphysics – divided into two parts (fann) It concludes with an appendix (khātimah) nearly as long as the work itself, divided into four sections (Quṭb) discussing dogmatic theology, religious law, practical philosophy, and mysticism.
This composite diagram was explicitly connected to educational objectives when it was appended to the nineteenth century lithograph edition of the commentary on book I of al-Ṭūsī’s treatise by Muḥamad Barakat.