Kitab ilm al-hay'a ala i'tiqad ahl al-sunna wa-l-jama'a dun al-falasifa (al-Hay'a al-islamiyya)

"The Book of Astronomy based on the tenets of the People of Tradition and Community, not on those of the Philosophers" is a treatise by Ibrahim al-Qaramani al-Amidi, whose title points to a concern with a truly "Islamic" science of nature; its best-known title is "al-Hay'a al-islamiyya". ^{1 2}

In the libraries of Istanbul, Bursa, Konya, Kütahya and Manisa Heinen found many copies under similar titles: "The Divine Astronomy", "The Astronomy of Islam according to the People of the Sunna", "A Treatise on Astronomy based on the Hadith and Athar", "A Treatise on the Astronomy of the Revealed Law", "The Islamic Astronomy", "The Astronomy of al-Qaramani", extracts, and Turkish translations. ^{2 3} Having perused some, he judged their scope and contents essentially the same. ³

The author admits he took all his material from earlier books, chiefly al-Hay'a al-saniyya of al-Suyuti; for this reason Heinen turned to study al-Suyuti's book itself. ³