Having a Look at Abdul Ali Birjandi’s Works, and a Report of their Available Manuscripts in the Libraries in Iran

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FāzelBirjandi,an accomplishedmathematician, astronomer, andcommentator of astronomical works, has been skillful in themost importantbranchesofscience. Those of his works which nowadays are available for us can be categorized into two groups: firstly, the ones which were written by him; and secondly, the ones in which he explained about the previous scholars’ works. In the present article, the author intends to provide a report of FāzelBirjandi’s works; therefore, he, first of all, talks about his well-known Persian, and Arabic works. Following this, he tries to classify Birjandi’s works into groups of astronomy andastrology, geography, agriculture, logic, supplication andQuranic Sciences, mathematics, FÏqh (jurisprudence), and horoscope. Besides, he also classifies his works according to the type of writing including his own writing, his commentary on other works, and his translation of other works. Then, the author talks about the works attributed to Birjandy as well as the manuscripts of his works scattered in various libraries. In the last art, he is going to provide a list of the works in Birjandi’s handwriting which are available, and the ones which have been published. 

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