Astronomy and allied sciences were cultivated with particular vigour in mediaeval Islamic civilisation, as witnessed by the large quantity of texts, instruments, and visual materials that were produced. Though the majority of this work was created by Muslims writing in Arabic, it is not rare to encounter astronomical and cosmological endeavours written in Arabic by non-Muslims or texts written in other languages associated with Islam, in particular Persian and Turkish. This is what one might expect from traditions that lasted over a millennium-from the second/eighth to the