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{{Italic title}}'''''Zīj as-Sindhind''''' ({{Langx|ar|زيج السندهند الكبير}}, ''Zīj as‐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 [[Sindh]] in present day [[Pakistan]]. Al-Mansur requested an Arabic translation of this work from the Sanskrit. The 8th-century astronomer and translator [[Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī]] is known to have contributed to this translation.{{sfn|Plofker|2007}} In his book ''Ṭabaqāt al-ʼUmam'' "Categories of Nations",{{sfn|Andalusī |Salem|Kumar |1991}} [[Said al-Andalusi]] informs that others who worked on it include [[ibn Sa'd]] and [[Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi]]. He adds that its meaning is ''al-dahr al-dahir'' (infinite time or cyclic time).<br />
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This is the first of many Arabic zijs 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}}<br />
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As described by Said al-Andalusi, as-Sindhind divides time into cyclic periods of creation and destruction which are called [[kalpa (time)|kalpas]].<br />
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* {{cite book |last1=Andalusī |first1=Ṣāʻid ibn Aḥmad |last2=Salem |first2=Semaʻan I. |last3=Kumar |first3=Alok |title=Science in the Medieval World: Book of the Categories of Nations |date=1991 |publisher=[[University of Texas Press]] |location=Austin, Texas |isbn=0292704690 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mcN7AAAAQBAJ}}<br />
* {{cite encyclopedia | editor = Thomas Hockey | display-editors = etal | last = Plofker | first = Kim |author-link=Kim Plofker | 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])<br />
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[[Category:Astronomical works of the medieval Islamic world]]<br />
[[Category:History of astronomy]]<br />
[[Category:Astronomy in India]]<br />
[[Category:Astronomical tables]]<br />
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