4to. 207 pp., Arabic text, various b & w plates, introduction, index, publisher’s original wrappers, title in English and Arabic, ex library stamp on last fly leaf, very light browning to covers, otherwise copy clean and in very good condition, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo, first edition, 1976.

Synopsis

Baha’al-din al-Amili was an Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer, and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in Safavid Iran. 
He wrote over 100 treatises and books in different topics in Arabic and Persian. A number of architectural and engineering designs are attributed to him, but none can be substantiated with sources. These may have included the Naqsh-e Jahan Square and Charbagh Avenue in Isfahan, as well as designing the Manar Jonban, also known as the two shaking minarets, situated on either side of the mausoleum of Amoo Abdollah Garladani in the west of Isfahan. He is buried in Imam Reza’s shrine in Mashad in Iran.