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From Alamut to Dadu: Jamal al-Din's Armillary Sphere on the Mongol Silk Roads

Yoichi, Isahaya (2021) From Alamut to Dadu: Jamal al-Din's Armillary Sphere on the Mongol Silk Roads. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 74 (1). pp. 65-78. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

This article aims to shed light on a hitherto unknown transmission route of the astral sciences from Alamut to Dadu (Beijing). I argue that the huntianyi, an armillary sphere, which Jamal al-Din dedicated to Qubilai in 1267, was designed in Alamut - the main stronghold of the Nizari Isma ilis - on the grounds that the instrument was set to Alamut's latitude. After its fall in 1256, the armillary sphere traversed the Mongol Silk Roads. The Dastur al-munajjimin, an Arabic work of the Nizari Isma.ilis, functions as the missing link in this West-to-East transmission.

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Additional Information: Funding Agency and Grant Number: JSPS KAKENHIMinistry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT)Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceGrants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) [JP19H00546] Funding text: The name of Dr. Yang Qiao (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) appears first in these acknowledgements, as the friend who turned my attention to Jamal al-Din's armillary sphere, the main theme of this article. I would also like to express my deep appreciation to the faculty members of the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, to which I currently belong, for their intensive discussion of an earlier draft of this article at my seminar. Dr. Yano Michio (Prof. Emeritus at Kyoto Sangyo University), the commentor of the seminar, took the essential role in forming miscellaneous materials into an article by providing me with many insightful comments. My special thanks are addressed to Dr. Leigh Chipman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), whose editing made my sentences more readable. The research on which this article was based was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP19H00546. It would not have been possible to complete this article without the critical but thoughtful remarks made by Dr. Benno van Dalen (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) in the very final phase of writing. These acknowledgments must be closed with my profound thanks to Dr. Ohashi Yukio, whose sudden passing occurred shortly after I was advised by him about the structure of the armillary sphere.
Uncontrolled Keywords: history; Mongol Empire; Ilkhanid dynasty; Yuan dynasty; dhat al-alaq (zantu halaji); huntianyi (armillary sphere); Jamal al-Din (Zhamaluding);
Subjects: D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában
P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PI Oriental languages and literatures / keleti nyelvek és irodalmak
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Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 11 Nov 2022 08:08
Last Modified: 30 Apr 2023 23:15
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/153339

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