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Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi

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Al-Nadim includes an extract from Abū Maʿshar's book on the variations of astronomical tables, which describes how the Persian kings gathered the best writing materials in the world to preserve their books on the sciences and deposited them in the Sarwayh fortress in the city of Jayy in
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Khurasani intellectual elite, and he defended an approach of a “most astonishing and inconsistent” eclecticism. His reputation saved him from religious persecution, although there is a report of one incident where he was whipped for his practice of astrology under the caliphate of
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We can single out for brief consideration only two of the many Persians whose contributions were of great importance in the development of Islamic sciences in those days. Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (d. 272/886), who came from eastern Iran, was a rather famous astrologer and
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court in Baghdad. While he was not a major innovator, his practical manuals for training astrologers profoundly influenced Muslim intellectual history and, through translations, that of western Europe and Byzantium.
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His works on astronomy are not extant, but information can still be gleaned from summaries found in the works of later astronomers or from his astrology works.
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The introduction of Aristotelian material was accompanied by the translation of major astrological texts, particularly Claudius Ptolemy's
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Abu Ma'shar and Latin Aristotelianism in the Twelfth Century, The Recovery of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy through Iranian Astrology
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in 1140. Lemay (1962) argued that the writings of Albumasar were very likely the single most important original source for the
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to examine months and days of the year. It was a manual for astrologers. It was translated in the 12th century by
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The Arrival of the Pagan Philosophers in the North:A Twelfth Century Florilegium in Edinburgh University Library
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His foretelling of an event that subsequently occurred earned him a lashing ordered by the displeased Caliph
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in the early 8th century. Its population, as was generally the case in the frontier areas of the
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mentions that Abū Maʿshar came to Benaras (Varanasi) and studied astronomy there for ten years.
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Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures
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Page of a 15th-century manuscript of the "Book of nativities" (BNF Arabe 2583 fol. 15v).
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Abū Maʿshar was a member of the third generation (after the Arab Conquest) of the
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This article is about the astrologer. For the historian and hadith scholar, see
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In 1390 ʻAbd al-Ḥasan Iṣfāhānī compiled a miscellany of treatises called the
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for medieval European scholars prior to the middle of the 12th century.
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The Fihrist of al-Nadīm: A Tenth-Century Survey of Islamic Culture
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The Fihrist of al-Nadīm: A Tenth-Century Survey of Islamic Culture
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copied excerpts into the 14th century illustrated manuscript the
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The 'Book of Surprises' (Kitab al-bulhan)of the Bodleian Library
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Music Symbolism in Medieval and Renaissance Astrological Imagery
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Page spread from the 1515 Venetian edition of Abu Ma'shar's
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Abū Maʿshar is said to have died at the age of 98 (but a
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Kitāb al-dalālāt ʿalā al-ittiṣālāt wa-qirānāt al-kawākib
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Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī
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Index

Albumasar
Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani

Balkh
Khurasan
Wāsiṭ
Abbasid Caliphate
Aristotle
Ptolemy
Islamic Golden Age
Abbasid era
Astrology
Astronomy
Al-Sijzi
Albertus Magnus
Roger Bacon
Pierre d'Ailly
Pico della Mirandola
Latinized
AH
Persian
Muslim astrologer
Abbasid
Balkh
Khurasan
Abbasid revolt
Arab conquest of Persia
al-Maʾmūn
al-Nadim
Al-Fihrist

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