@article{1451427,
      author = {Niazi, Kaveh,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451427},
      title = {A princely pandect on astronomy : Naṣīr al-Dīn  Ṭūsī's Muʻīnīya Epistle and its appendix /},
      abstract = {This book presents an English-language translation of  Risālā-yi Muīnīya, or the Muīnīya Epistle.  Risālā-yi Muīnīya is one of the earliest known works of  Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī (1201-1274), an intellectual luminary  of the 13th century CE. The work is notable for the choice  of Tūsī's native Persian as the language of the text. In  addition, Tūsī organized his volume into a four-part  structure, which went on to become a popular template for  the Islamic astronomers who succeeded him. This book helped  ensure the patronage of Tūsī's courtly patrons during his  decades-long stay with the Ismaīlīs, as well as the  continuation of his remarkable career under the first  Ilkhanid rulers of Persia. This translation helps make this  notable treatise accessible to English language readers. It  is among a handful of English translations of major  astronomical works dealing with hay'a/cosmography in the  Islamic world. Subsequently Tūsī was to pen his own  commentary on the work (the Hall-i Mushkilāt-i Muīnīya,  or A solution to the difficulties of the Muīnīya) and he  used this occasion to discuss his celebrated mathematical  formulation "the Tūsī Couple" (a concept that he merely  hinted at in the Risālā-yi Muīnīya).},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50761-9},
      recid = {1451427},
      pages = {1 online resource (xix, 516 pages) :},
}