Made in Arabic
A sultan's astrolabe
أسطرلابُ السلطان
An astrolabe made by ʿUmar ibn Yusuf ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAli ibn Rasul, a sultan of the Rasulid dynasty of Yemen, in 1291, and signed with his name. Its rim is graduated in abjad letters, the pointers of its net carry the Arabic names of the stars, and everything on it is written in Arabic – a craft that even a king practised with his own hands.
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- the astrolabe of the Rasulid sultan ʿUmar ibn Yusuf, Yemen, 1291
The path between languagesYemen, 690 AH / 1291 CE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ملكٌ عامّ
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