This book contains an edition - with an extensive introduction,
translation and commentary - of The Light of the World, a text on
theoretical astronomy by Joseph Ibn Nahmias, composed in
Judeo-Arabic around 1400 C.E. in the Iberian Peninsula. As the only
text on theoretical astronomy written by a Jew in any variety of
Arabic, this work is evidence for a continuing relationship between
Jewish and Islamic thought in the late fourteenth and early
fifteenth centuries. The text's most lasting effect may have been
exerted via its passage to Renaissance Italy, where it influenced
scholars at the University of Padua in the early sixteenth century.
With its crucial role in the development of European astronomy, as
well as the physical sciences under Islam and in Jewish culture,
The Light of the World is an important episode in Islamic
intellectual history, Jewish civilization, and the history of
astronomy.
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