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Sources

Ekhtiar, Maryam D., Priscilla P. Soucek, Sheila R. Canby, and Navina Najat Haidar, eds. Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011 (Cat. nos. 165, 118).

King, D.A., and J. Samsó. "Zı̄dj." In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2012.

Hartner, W. "Asturlab." In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2012.

Pingree, D. "'Ilm al-Hay'a." In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Brill Online, 2012.

Saliba, George. Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007.

———. "The World of Islam and Renaissance Science and Technology." In The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance, edited by Catherine Hess, pp. 55–73. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004.

———. A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories during the Golden Age of Islam. New York: New York University Press, 1994.

Turner, Howard R. Science in Medieval Islam: An Illustrated Introduction. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.


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