This is alist of Arabic star names. In Westernastronomy, most of the accepted star names are Arabic, a few areGreek and some are of unknown origin. Typically only bright stars have names.^[1]

Very old star names originated among people who lived in theArabian Peninsula more than a thousand years ago, after the rise ofIslam.^[2] However, someArabic language star names sprang up later in history, as translations of ancientGreek language descriptions.

The astronomerClaudius Ptolemy in hisAlmagest (2nd century) tabulated the celestial position and brightness (visual magnitude) of 1,025 stars. Ptolemy's book was translated into Arabic in the 8th and 9th centuries and became famous in Europe as a 12th-century Latin translation. Many of the Arabic-language star descriptions in theAlmagest came to be widely used as names for stars.

Ptolemy used a strategy of "figure reference" to identify stars according to their position within a familiar constellation or asterism (e.g., "in the right shoulder of The Hunter").Muslim astronomers adopted some of these as proper names for stars, and added names from traditional Arabic star lore, which they recorded in variousZij treatises. The most notable of these is theBook of Fixed Stars written by theMuslim astronomerAbd al-Rahman al-Sufi (known asAzophi in the West), who thoroughly illustrated all the stars known to him along with their observations, descriptions, positions, magnitudes, brightness, and color.

In Europe, during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, many ancient star names were copied or translated incorrectly by various writers, some of whom did not know the Arabic language very well. As a result, the history of a star's name can be complicated.^[3]

In 2016, theIAU designated official star names to resolve the difficulty of using different naming systems.^[4] Many stars were given the commonly used Arabic name.

In Arabic astronomy,Draco was divided into three parts:

1. Alawaid, the first part and the main body of Draco, also called الْرُّبَعar-Rubaʽ.
2. Arrakis
3. Azfar Adib

• Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world
• List of proper names of stars
• List of Chinese star names
• Lists of astronomical objects

• Islamic Crescents' Observation Project (ICOP) website, which in turn cites:
  • Paul Kunitzsch, Tim Smart,Short Guide to Modern Star Names and Their Derivations (1986)
  • Guy Ottewell,The Astronomical Companion^{[year needed]}
  • Abdul-Rahim Bader,Rasd al-Sama' ("Observing the Sky")^{[year needed]}
  • Hamid Al-NaimyElm al-Falak ("Astronomy")^{[year needed]}

• ICOP: Arabic Star Names
• Kaler, James,"Star Names: Proper Names", University of Illinois
• The Astronomy Corner: Reference – Star Names v1.1.2 (2006-05-28) from web.archive.org
• Lebling, Robert W.,"Arabic in the Sky"Archived 2014-11-30 at theWayback Machine,Saudi Aramco World magazine, September/October 2010, v.61, n.5

• Lists of stars
• Lists of English words of Arabic origin
• Lists of etymologies
• Arabic words and phrases
• Astronomical nomenclature

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