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Al-Anisan
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Arabic/ Arabian asterism |
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Al-Anīsān is an Indigenous Arabian asterism. Name variants are Al-Ayibsan and Al-Baysan. |
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==Etymology and History== |
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[[File:Bodleian-Library-MS-Marsh-144 00183 p-173 reduced.jpg|thumb|A page from the manuscript related to the constellation Triangulum from Ṣuwar al-Kawākib by al-Ṣūfī, belonging to the Marsh 144 manuscript at the Bodleian Library, where the names of Alpha and Beta Trianguli are mentioned as "al-Ayibsān.]] |
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Based on classical Arabic sources,<ref>''[https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/c1caa84c-f6d2-483f-9eb4-2439cccdc801/ Bodleian Library, Marsh 144]'' – A manuscript of ''Ṣuwar al-Kawākib'' by al-Ṣūfī, dated ca. 400 AH </ref> the name "Al-Aybisan," meaning "the two joints (bones) of Aries," has also been recorded for the Alpha and Beta stars of Triangulum, while "Al-Anisan" may be a variant or alternate spelling of this name: |
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* '''al-Ayibsān'''. |
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** ''Bodleian Library, Marsh 144'' – A manuscript of ''Ṣuwar al-Kawākib'' by al-Ṣūfī, dated ca. 400 AH, contains the name |
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** ''Süleymaniye Library, Istanbul – Lala Mustafa Pasha Collection 2698'' – A copy of Ibn al-Ṣūfī’s ''Urjūza'', dated 718 AH (copied from an earlier version dated 519 AH). |
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* '''al-Baysān''', which could be a textual or phonetic variant of the same root: |
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** ''Ibn Sīda, al-Mukhaṣṣaṣ'', vol. 9 – Printed in Bulaq, Egypt (1319 AH); |
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A more detailed discussion of these names appears in '''Dr. Khalid al-ʿAjjājī’s''' commentary on ''Urjūzat al-Kawākib''. |
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=== Identifications & Maps === |
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[[File:Laffitte Tri Friends.png|thumb|Al-Anīsān, The Two Friends, in Laffitte (2012); map and drawing. ]] |
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| ⚫ | ==== '''''Al-Anīsān''''' in Laffitte (2012<ref>Roland Laffitte, ''Le ciel des Arabes'', 2012</ref>, 2025<ref>Roland Laffitte, ''Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe'', Orient des Mots, 2025 ([https://uranos.fr/500-noms-herites-des-arabes/ online])</ref>). ==== |
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|the Two Friends |
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|Qutayba |
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|''al-Ḫiṣaṣ'' |
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|the Notables |
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|''Ḏ. man.'' |
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==Discussion== |
==Discussion== |
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==IAU Working Group Star Names== |
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==Weblinks== |
== Weblinks == |
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Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallah b. Muslim. 1956. ''Kitāb al-anwāʾ (fī mawāsim al-ʿArab)''. Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyya. |
Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallah b. Muslim. 1956. ''Kitāb al-anwāʾ (fī mawāsim al-ʿArab)''. Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyya. |
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al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. 1981. ''Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniya wa al-arbaʿīn.'' Beirut: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīda. |
al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. 1981. ''Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniya wa al-arbaʿīn.'' Beirut: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīda. |
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Latest revision as of 05:35, 5 June 2025
Al-Anīsān is an Indigenous Arabian asterism. Name variants are Al-Ayibsan and Al-Baysan.
Etymology and History
Spelling Variants
Based on classical Arabic sources,[1] the name "Al-Aybisan," meaning "the two joints (bones) of Aries," has also been recorded for the Alpha and Beta stars of Triangulum, while "Al-Anisan" may be a variant or alternate spelling of this name:
- al-Ayibsān.
- Bodleian Library, Marsh 144 – A manuscript of Ṣuwar al-Kawākib by al-Ṣūfī, dated ca. 400 AH, contains the name
- Süleymaniye Library, Istanbul – Lala Mustafa Pasha Collection 2698 – A copy of Ibn al-Ṣūfī’s Urjūza, dated 718 AH (copied from an earlier version dated 519 AH).
- al-Baysān, which could be a textual or phonetic variant of the same root:
- Ibn Sīda, al-Mukhaṣṣaṣ, vol. 9 – Printed in Bulaq, Egypt (1319 AH);
A more detailed discussion of these names appears in Dr. Khalid al-ʿAjjājī’s commentary on Urjūzat al-Kawākib.
Identifications & Maps
Al-Anīsān in Adams (2018),[2]
Al-Anīsān per Khalid AlAjaji
Al-Anīsān in Laffitte (2012[3], 2025[4]).
| αβ Tri | al-Anīsān | the Two Friends | Qutayba |
| al-Ḫiṣaṣ | the Notables | Ḏ. man. |
Discussion
IAU Working Group Star Names
Weblinks
Reference
Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallah b. Muslim. 1956. Kitāb al-anwāʾ (fī mawāsim al-ʿArab). Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyya.
Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. 1981. Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniya wa al-arbaʿīn. Beirut: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīda.
- ↑ Bodleian Library, Marsh 144 – A manuscript of Ṣuwar al-Kawākib by al-Ṣūfī, dated ca. 400 AH
- ↑ Danielle Adams, Rain Stars Set, Lunar Stations Rise, 2018
- ↑ Roland Laffitte, Le ciel des Arabes, 2012
- ↑ Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe, Orient des Mots, 2025 (online)
