A Notice

摘要

The history of Arabic science has produced, during these last decades, some interesting studies from European scholars, such as those of D. A. King, O. Kurz and Juan Vernet, to name only these.rnThe art historian and Arabist, Antonio Fernandez-Puertas, who has devoted brilliant works to Islamic art and notably the Alhambra of Granada, brings his solid contribution to the common task. He rests it on the study of an horologe of the Nasrid period, which can be dated to 764/1362, during the second reign of the sultan of Granada Muhammad V, and which is mentioned in a prose work by the famous fourteenth-century vizier and polygraph, Lisan ad-din Ibn al-Khatlb.