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The Wonders of Creation

عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات

Islamic · Zakariyya al-Qazwini · 1 of 14 chapters · next 10 Nov

The sky as a 13th-century scholar saw it: planets and their powers, the Arabic names of the stars, the moon's 28 mansions, the angels who hold up the Throne. Al-Qazwini's Wonders of Creation, Book One, newly translated.