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'''Zīj al-Sindhind''' ({{Lang-ar|زيج السندهند الكبير}}, ''Zīj al‐Sindhind al‐kabīr'', lit. "Great astronomical tables of the Sindhind"; from [[Sanskrit]] ''siddhānta'', "system" or "treatise") is a work of [[zij]] (astronomical handbook with tables used to calculate celestial positions) brought in the early 770s AD to the court of Caliph [[al-Mansur]] in Baghdad from [[India]]. Al-Mansur requested an Arabic translation of this work from the Sanskrit. The 8th-century astronomer and translator [[Muhammad al-Fazari]] is known to have contributed to this translation.{{sfn|Plofker|2007}} In his book ''Ṭabaqāt al-ʼUmam (Categories of Nations)'',<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Science in the medieval world : book of the Categories of nations.|last1=Andalusī |first1=Ṣāʻid ibn Aḥmad|date=1991|publisher=University of Texas Press|last2=Salem |first2=Semaʻan I. |last3= Kumar |first3=Alok |isbn=0292704690|location=Austin|oclc=23385017}}</ref> [[Said al-Andalusi]] informs that others who worked on it include [[Ibn Sa'd|al-Baghdadi]] and [[al-Khwarizmi]]. He adds that its meaning is "al-dahr al-dahir" (infinite time or cyclic time).

== Content ==

This is the first of many Arabic Zij's based on the Indian astronomical methods known as the Sindhind. The work contains tables for the movements of the sun, the moon and the five planets known at the time. It consists of approximately 37 chapters on calendar and astronomical calculations and 116 tables with calendar, astronomical and astrological data, as well as a table of sine values. {{citation needed|date=October 2013}}

As described by Said al-Andalusi, al-Sindhind divides time into cyclic periods of creation and destruction which are called [[Kalpa (aeon)]].

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==References==
* {{cite encyclopedia | editor = Thomas Hockey | display-editors = etal | last = Plofker | first = Kim | title=Fazārī: Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al‐Fazārī | encyclopedia = The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers | publisher = Springer | date = 2007 | location = New York | pages = 362–3 | url=http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Fazari_BEA.htm | isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 }} ([http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Fazari_BEA.pdf PDF version])

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