A treatise in verse on the knowledge of the stars with a commentary upon the same in prose, by Mīrzā Abū Ṭalib Khān b. Ḥājjī Muḥammad Beg Khān Hindī Isfahānī (d. 1220 or 1221 A.H., 1805-1806 C.E.) The author in the introduction states that he was requested on his return from Europe by a friend to write his latest observations in the science of astronomy; the present treatise was accordingly compiled after a labour of two months in 1219 A.H. (1804 C.E.), and dedicated to Abū al-Fatḥ Sulṭān Muḥammad Ṣafavī. The author, who was a Turk by descent, was born and brought up at Lucknow. Mukhtar al-Dawlah, the Prime Minister of Nawwāb Āṣif al-Dawlah, had appointed him 'Amal-dār of Etawah and several other districts, but after the death of his patron he was superseded in his military command and pensioned. Later, under the employment of Mr. Middleton, British resident at Lucknow, he participated in suppressing the rebellion raised by Rāja Balbhaddar-Singh.

For Mīrzā Abū Ṭalib Khān's travelogue see Or Ms 90.