Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi
Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi | |
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Page of a 15th-century manuscript of the "Book of nativities" (BNF Arabe 2583 fol. 15v). | |
| Born | 10 August 787 |
| Died | 9 March 886 (aged 98) Wāsiṭ, Iraq, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Aristotle and Ptolemy |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age (Abbasid era) |
| Main interests | Astrology, Astronomy |
| Influenced | Al-Sijzi, Albertus Magnus, Roger Bacon, Pierre d'Ailly, Pico della Mirandola. |
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Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar (also Albusar, Albuxar, Albumazar; full name Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī ابومَعْشَر جعفر بن محمد بن عمر بلخی; 10 August 787 – 9 March 886, AH 171–272), was an early Persian Muslim astrologer, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the Abbasid 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.