عجائب المخلوقات

The Book of Wonders of Creatures and Strangeness of Beings - by Zakaria al-Kufi al-Qazwini/682 AH/

Book contents:

The first consideration: On the reality of the spheres, their shapes, positions and movement in a general way

The second consideration: the astronomy of the moon, its increase and decrease in its light, its lunar eclipse, and its miraculous properties and effects

Third look: into the orbit of Mercury

Fourth view: into the orbit of Venus

Fifth view: On the astronomy of the sun, its eclipses, its properties, and its amazing effect on the upper and lower reaches

Sixth look: into the orbit of Mars

Seventh Look: Into Jupiter's Orbit

Eighth look: in the orbit of Saturn

The ninth view: In the orbit of the constants

Separation in fixed processions

A chapter in the northern picture and the properties of the North Pole

A chapter in the twelve signs

Chapter in the southern picture and the benefits of Antarctica

Separation in the houses of the moon

Tenth look: in the zodiac

Eleventh view: In the astronomy of the celestial spheres

The twelfth view: On the inhabitants of the heavens, who are the angels

Thirteenth look: In time

A chapter on the virtues of the days and their characteristics

Saying in the months - a chapter in the months of the Arabs

A season in the Roman months

A season in the Persian months

Saying about the seasons

A chapter on some miracles related to the recurrence of years

The second article is in the bottoms

First look: At the fireball

Separation in the meteors and the swoop of the planets

Second look: At the air ball

Separation in clouds and rain and what is related to them

season in wind

Saying in the origins of the wind

A chapter in the miraculous benefits of the wind

A chapter on thunder and lightning and what is related to them

A chapter in the aura, rainbow and other things that appear and we see in the air

Third look: In the water ball

A chapter in the sea becoming a side in the land

A chapter in strange conditions exposed to the seas

A season in the islands of the China Sea

A chapter on the wondrous animals found in this sea

A season in the islands of the Indo-Sea

A chapter on the animals of the Persian sea and its islands

A chapter in the mention of some of the strange animals of the Persian Sea

A chapter in the islands of Bahr al-Qulzam and its animals

A chapter in the islands of the Zinj Sea and its animals

A chapter in the islands of the Maghreb Sea and its strange animals

A chapter in the islands of the Caspian Sea and its animals

say in the water animal

Fifth consideration: On the sphere of the earth and its regions, the extent of its crime, its population, its ruins, and what is exposed to the earth from earthquakes and eclipses.

A chapter on the plain becoming a mountain, and the land becoming a sea, and their opposite

A chapter on the benefits, properties and wonders of mountains

A season in the generation of rivers

A chapter on the generation of springs, wells, and their wonders

Consider objects: They are the objects generated by mothers

First look: at minerals

The first type of metals - gold, copper, silver, iron and lead

The second type of stones - there are many types

The third type is in fatty bodies

Second look: in plants

The first section in the trees

The second section of the plant stars

The third look: in the animal

The first type is in the reality of man and its consideration of matters - the first is in the reality of man

The second matter: in the speaking soul

Separation in the souls of strange influences

The third matter: in the birth of man and in the position of the fetus in the womb and the cause of masculinity and femininity, and in the position of pregnancy

Fourth matter: On the anatomy of human organs - the first section, which are similar

The second part of the compound organs, which is of two types, the outward and the inward - the outward: it includes sections such as the eyes, ears, nose, lip, beards, mouth, hair and nail.

The second type of compound organs - the internal: it includes types such as the brain, lung, and heart...

The fifth matter: On the powers - the visible powers, which are the five senses, and the inner powers, which are types

A chapter on people's differences in reason, and it has divisions

The sixth matter: On the characteristics of man and the benefits of its parts

The second type of animal

Chapter in the wonders of the machinations of Satan

A chapter in the mention of some diabolical

A chapter in a strange tale about the jinn and what happened to them

The third type of animal: Beasts - the mare - the mule - the donkey - the zebra

The fourth type of animal, camels - camels - cows - buffalo - giraffe - lamb - goats - deer - deer

The fifth type of carnivorous animal - leopard - tiger - lion - fox - pig - bear - monkey - wolf...

The sixth type of animals: Bird - geese - parrot - eagle - peregrine falcon - owl - pigeons - rooster - chicken - sparrow..

The seventh type of animals, vermin and insects - snake - flea - mosquito - snake - locust...

The second section deals with compound animals that are born from two animals of different species

The third section of Weird Animals Pictures

Throne campaign

The image of the king who rises in line and the angels in line

Israfil, peace be upon him

Gabriel, peace be upon him

Michael, peace be upon him

Azrael, peace be upon him

The angels of the seven heavens, the keepers, Harut and Marut in Babylon