Risālat al-Ṣūfī fī al-kawākib (Arabic:رسالة الصوفي في الكواكب, "Epistle of al-Ṣūfī on the Stars"), is an 10-11th-century poem, probably composed in Rayy, Iran.
[1][2] It is a poetic supplement to Ibn al-Ṣūfī's astronomical opus The Book of Fixed Stars, in the urjūza genre.
[1] An inscription in the manuscript gives a date of AH 554 (1159 CE), but this is probably a later interpolation.
[4] The manuscript has various depictions of the constellations, using various human and animal figures.
[6] Another Qajar copy exists, dated ̣to 1894 (Tehran, Majlis Library, no.