ABSTRACT
The A.P. was easier to handle than a standard zij and this is the reason for its success in the Maghrib, where the Zacutian tradition remained until the second half of the nineteenth century; its tables were copied and recopied and several Maghribi scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries wrote new sets of canons to simplify their use. This was partly due to the fact that al-Hajari’s Arabic - understandably in an author who spent the first thirty years of his life in the Spain of the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century - was by no means faultless and he did not seem to have a thorough knowledge of the Arabic technical vocabulary.
