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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albumasar" title="Albumasar – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Albumasar" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BB%CE%B2%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B1%CF%81" title="Αλβουμάσαρ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Αλβουμάσαρ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albumasar" title="Albumasar – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Albumasar" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AE%DB%8C" title="ابومعشر بلخی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ابومعشر بلخی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abou_Ma%27shar_al-Balkh%C3%AE" title="Abou Ma'shar al-Balkhî – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Abou Ma'shar al-Balkhî" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi" title="Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hausa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi" title="Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%91%D7%95_%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A9%D7%A8_%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%97%27%D7%99" title="אבו מעשר אל-בלח'י – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אבו מעשר אל-בלח'י" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi" title="Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eb%C3%BB_Me%C5%9Fer_Belx%C3%AE" title="Ebû Meşer Belxî – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Ebû Meşer Belxî" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC" title="അബുമാസാർ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="അബുമാസാർ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%89" title="ابو معشر البلخى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ابو معشر البلخى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi" title="Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ma%E2%80%99shar_al-Balkhi" title="Abu Ma’shar al-Balkhi – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Abu Ma’shar al-Balkhi" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ma%CA%BCshar_Ja%CA%BCfar_ibn_Muhammad_ibn_Umar_al-Balxiy" title="Abu Maʼshar Jaʼfar ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Balxiy – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Abu Maʼshar Jaʼfar ibn Muhammad ibn Umar al-Balxiy" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B9%D9%81%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B4%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AE%DB%8C" title="جعفر بن محمد ابوالمعشر البلخی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="جعفر بن محمد ابوالمعشر البلخی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Maszar" title="Abu Maszar – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Abu Maszar" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albuxar_de_Bactro" title="Albuxar de Bactro – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Albuxar de Bactro" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B1%D1%83_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%85%D0%B8" title="Абу Машар аль-Балхи – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Абу Машар аль-Балхи" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab%C3%BA_Ma%E2%80%99%C5%A1ar" title="Abú Ma’šar – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Abú Ma’šar" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ma%C5%A1ar" title="Abu Mašar – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Abu Mašar" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%95%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%88_%D9%85%DB%95%D8%B4%D8%B9%DB%95%D8%B1_%D8%A8%DB%95%DA%B5%D8%AE%DB%8C" title="ئەبوو مەشعەر بەڵخی – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ئەبوو مەشعەر بەڵخی" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ma%C5%A1ar" title="Abu Mašar – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Abu Mašar" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a 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For the historian and hadith scholar, see <a href="/wiki/Abu_Ma%27shar_Najih_al-Sindi_al-Madani" title="Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani">Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">9 March 886 (aged 98)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/W%C4%81si%E1%B9%AD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wāsiṭ">Wāsiṭ</a>, Iraq, <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid Caliphate</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic background</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Influences</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy" title="Ptolemy">Ptolemy</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Era</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age" title="Islamic Golden Age">Islamic Golden Age</a> <br /> (<a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate" title="Abbasid Caliphate">Abbasid era</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Main interests</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Astrology" title="Astrology">Astrology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">Astronomy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Influenced</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Al-Sijzi" title="Al-Sijzi">Al-Sijzi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Albertus_Magnus" title="Albertus Magnus">Albertus Magnus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pierre_d%27Ailly" title="Pierre d'Ailly">Pierre d'Ailly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pico_della_Mirandola" class="mw-redirect" title="Pico della Mirandola">Pico della Mirandola</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi</b>, <a href="/wiki/Latinization_(literature)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latinization (literature)">Latinized</a> as <b>Albumasar</b> (also <i>Albusar</i>, <i>Albuxar</i>, <i>Albumazar</i>; full name <i>Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī</i> <span dir="rtl"> <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد بن عمر البلخي</span></span></span>; <span dir="ltr">10 August 787 – 9 March 886</span>, <a href="/wiki/Hijri_year" title="Hijri year">AH</a> 171–272),<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPingree1970_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPingree1970-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an early <a href="/wiki/Persians" title="Persians">Persian</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Islamic_astrology" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic astrology">Muslim astrologer</a>, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the <a href="/wiki/Abbasid" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbasid">Abbasid</a> court in Baghdad.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPingree1970_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPingree1970-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Abū Maʿshar was a native of <a href="/wiki/Balkh" title="Balkh">Balkh</a>, a town in the Balkh province of Afghanistan, approximately 74 kilometres (46 mi) to the south of the Amu Darya, one of the main bases of support of the <a href="/wiki/Abbasid_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Abbasid Revolution">Abbasid revolt</a> in the early 8th century. Its population, as was generally the case in the frontier areas of the <a href="/wiki/Arab_conquest_of_Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab conquest of Persia">Arab conquest of Persia</a>, remained culturally dedicated to its Sassanian and Hellenistic heritage. He probably came to Baghdad in the early years of the caliphate of <a href="/wiki/Al-Ma%CA%BEm%C5%ABn" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Maʾmūn">al-Maʾmūn</a> (r. 813–833). According to <a href="/wiki/Al-Nadim" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Nadim">al-Nadim</a>'s <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Al-Fihrist" title="Al-Fihrist">Al-Fihrist</a></i></span> (10th century), he lived on the West Side of <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>, near <i>Bab Khurasan</i>, the northeast gate of the original city on the west Bank of the <a href="/wiki/Tigris" title="Tigris">Tigris</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Abū Maʿshar was a member of the third generation (after the Arab Conquest) of the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Persian_literature" title="Middle Persian literature">Pahlavi-oriented</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Al-Musta%27in" title="Al-Musta'in">al-Musta'in</a> (r. 862–866). He was a scholar of <i><a href="/wiki/Hadith" title="Hadith">hadith</a></i>, and according to biographical tradition, he only turned to astrology at the age of forty-seven (832/3). He became involved in a bitter dispute with <a href="/wiki/Al-Kindi" title="Al-Kindi">al-Kindi</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 796</span>–873), the foremost Arab philosopher of his time, who was versed in Aristotelism and Neoplatonism. It was his confrontation with al-Kindi that convinced Abū Maʿshar of the need to study “mathematics” in order to understand philosophical arguments.<sup id="cite_ref-Pingree_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pingree-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His foretelling of an event that subsequently occurred earned him a lashing ordered by the displeased Caliph <a href="/wiki/Al-Musta%27in" title="Al-Musta'in">al-Musta'in</a>. "I hit the mark and I was severely punished."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Isfahan" title="Isfahan">Isfahan</a>. The depository continued to exist at the time al-Nadim wrote in the 10th century.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Amir_Khusrav" class="mw-redirect" title="Amir Khusrav">Amir Khusrav</a> mentions that Abū Maʿshar came to Benaras (Varanasi) and studied astronomy there for ten years.<sup id="cite_ref-WDL2_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WDL2-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Abū Maʿshar is said to have died at the age of 98 (but a <a href="/wiki/Centenarian" title="Centenarian">centenarian</a> according to the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_calendar" title="Islamic calendar">Islamic year count</a>) in <a href="/wiki/Wasit,_Iraq" class="mw-redirect" title="Wasit, Iraq">Wāsiṭ</a> in eastern Iraq, during the last two nights of <a href="/wiki/Ramadan" title="Ramadan">Ramadan</a> of AH 272 (9 March 866). Abū Maʿshar was a <a href="/wiki/Shu%27ubiyya" title="Shu'ubiyya">Persian nationalist</a>, studying Sassanid-era astrology in his "Kitab al-Qeranat" to predict the imminent collapse of Arab rule and the restoration of Iranian rule.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Science_of_astrology">Science of astrology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Science of astrology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His work <i>Kitāb al-madkhal al-kabīr</i> (English: <i>The Great Introduction to the Science of Astrology)</i> provides an introduction to astrology which received many translations to Latin and Greek starting from the 11th-century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In one part of this book he records the rising of <a href="/wiki/Tide" title="Tide">tides</a> in relation with the position of the Moon, noticing that there are two high-tides in a day.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He rejected Greek thought that moonlight influenced the tides and considered that the Moon had some astrological virtue that attracted the sea. These ideas were discussed by European medieval scholars.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It had significant influence on European medieval scholars, like <a href="/wiki/Albert_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert the Great">Albert the Great</a> who developed his own theory of tides based on a mix of both light and Abu Ma'shar virtue.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_work">Other work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Other work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i>Kitāb mukhtaṣar al-madkhal</i>, an abridged version of the above, later translated to Latin by <a href="/wiki/Adelard_of_Bath" title="Adelard of Bath">Adelard of Bath</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Kitāb al-milal wa-ʾl-duwal</i> ("Book on religions and dynasties"), probably his most important work, commented on in the major works of <a href="/wiki/Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pierre_d%27Ailly" title="Pierre d'Ailly">Pierre d'Ailly</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pico_della_Mirandola" class="mw-redirect" title="Pico della Mirandola">Pico della Mirandola</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Fī dhikr ma tadullu ʿalayhi al-ashkhāṣ al-ʿulwiyya</i> ("On the indications of the celestial objects"),</li> <li><i>Kitāb al-dalālāt ʿalā al-ittiṣālāt wa-qirānāt al-kawākib</i> ("Book of the indications of the planetary conjunctions"),</li> <li><i>Kitāb al-ulūf</i> ("Book of thousands"), preserved only in summaries by <a href="/wiki/Sijz%C4%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Sijzī">Sijzī</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Kitāb taḥāwīl sinī al-ʿālam</i> (<i>Flowers of Abu Ma'shar</i>), uses <a href="/wiki/Horoscope" title="Horoscope">horoscopes</a> to examine months and days of the year. It was a manual for astrologers. It was translated in the 12th century by <a href="/wiki/John_of_Seville" title="John of Seville">John of Seville</a>.</li> <li><i>Kitāb taḥāwil sinī al-mawālīd</i> ("Book of the revolutions of the years of <a href="/wiki/Natal_astrology" title="Natal astrology">nativities</a>"). translated into Greek in 1000, and from that translation into Latin in the 13th century.</li> <li><i>Kitāb mawālīd al-rijāl wa-ʾl-nisāʾ</i> ("Book of nativities of men and women"), which was widely circulated in the Islamic world.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Hasan_Al-Isfahani" class="mw-redirect" title="Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani">ʻAbd al-Ḥasan Iṣfāhānī</a> copied excerpts into the 14th century illustrated manuscript the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Wonders" title="Book of Wonders">Kitab al-Bulhan</a> (ca.1390).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECarboni3_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECarboni3-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latin_and_Greek_translations">Latin and Greek translations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Latin and Greek translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Translation_of_Albumasar_Venice_1515_De_Magnis_Coniunctionibus.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Translation_of_Albumasar_Venice_1515_De_Magnis_Coniunctionibus.jpg/260px-Translation_of_Albumasar_Venice_1515_De_Magnis_Coniunctionibus.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Translation_of_Albumasar_Venice_1515_De_Magnis_Coniunctionibus.jpg/390px-Translation_of_Albumasar_Venice_1515_De_Magnis_Coniunctionibus.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Translation_of_Albumasar_Venice_1515_De_Magnis_Coniunctionibus.jpg/520px-Translation_of_Albumasar_Venice_1515_De_Magnis_Coniunctionibus.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2419" data-file-height="1622" /></a><figcaption>Page spread from the 1515 Venetian edition of Abu Ma'shar's <i>De Magnis Coniunctionibus</i></figcaption></figure> <p>Albumasar's "Introduction" (<i>Kitāb al-mudkhal al-kabīr</i>, written <span title="circa">c.</span><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 848</span>) was first translated into Latin by <a href="/wiki/John_of_Seville" title="John of Seville">John of Seville</a> in 1133, as <i>Introductorium in Astronomiam</i>, and again, less literally and abridged, as <i>De <a href="/wiki/Great_conjunction" title="Great conjunction">magnis coniunctionibus</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Herman_of_Carinthia" title="Herman of Carinthia">Herman of Carinthia</a> in 1140.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lemay (1962) argued that the writings of Albumasar were very likely the single most important original source for the <a href="/wiki/Recovery_of_Aristotle" class="mw-redirect" title="Recovery of Aristotle">recovery of Aristotle</a> for medieval European scholars prior to the middle of the 12th century.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Herman of Carinthia's translation, <i>De magnis coniunctionibus</i>, was <a href="/wiki/Editio_princeps" title="Editio princeps">first printed</a> by <a href="/wiki/Erhard_Ratdolt" title="Erhard Ratdolt">Erhard Ratdolt</a> of Augsburg in 1488/9. It was again printed in <a href="/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a>, in 1506 and 1515. </p><p>Modern editions: </p> <ul><li><i>De magnis coniunctionibus</i>, ed. K. Yamamoto, Ch. Burnett, Leiden, 2000, 2 vols. (Arabic & Latin text).</li> <li><i>De revolutionibus nativitatum</i>, ed. D. Pingree, Leipzig, 1968 (Greek text).</li> <li><i>Liber florum</i> ed. James Herschel Holden in <i>Five Medieval Astrologers</i> (Tempe, Az.: A.F.A., Inc., 2008): 13–66.</li> <li><i>Introductorium maius</i>, ed. R. Lemay, Napoli, 1995–1996, 9 vols. (Arabic text & two Latin translations).</li> <li><i>Ysagoga minor</i>, ed. Ch. Burnett, K. Yamamoto, M. Yano, Leiden-New York, 1994 (Arabic & Latin text).</li> <li><i>The Great Introduction to Astrology</i>, The Arabic Original and English Translation. 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class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In 1390 ʻAbd al-Ḥasan Iṣfāhānī compiled a miscellany of treatises called the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Wonders" title="Book of Wonders">Kitab al-Bulhan</a> (<span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar" dir="rtl">كتاب البلهان</span></span>), and in his introduction he mentions the astrological treatise on the horoscopes of men and women from the Kitab al-mawalid of Abu Ma'shar which is included in his book. This compilation was probably bound in <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a> during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Jalayir" title="Ahmad Jalayir">Jalayirid Sultan Ahmad</a> (1382–1410).</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abu_Ma%27shar_al-Balkhi&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237033735"><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="38" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/57px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/76px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikisource" title="Wikisource">Wikisource</a> has the text of the <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">1911 <i>Encyclopædia Britannica</i></a> article "<span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Albumazar" class="extiw" title="wikisource:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Albumazar">Albumazar</a></span>".</div></div> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEYamamoto2007_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFYamamoto2007">Yamamoto 2007</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Arrival of the Pagan Philosophers in the North:A Twelfth Century Florilegium in Edinburgh University Library</i>, Charles Burnett, <i>Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages</i>, ed. Joseph Canning, Edmund J. King, Martial Staub, (Brill, 2011), 83;"<i>...prolific writer Abu Ma'shar Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Balkhi, who was born in Khurasan in 787 A.D. and died in Wasit in Iraq in 886...</i>"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPingree1970-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPingree1970_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPingree1970_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPingree1970">Pingree 1970</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFrye1975" class="citation book cs1">Frye, R.N., ed. (1975). <i>The Cambridge history of Iran, Volume 4</i> (Repr. ed.). London: Cambridge U.P. p. 584. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-20093-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-20093-6"><bdi>978-0-521-20093-6</bdi></a>. <q>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. 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style="width:1%">11th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Nasr_Mansur" title="Abu Nasr Mansur">Abu Nasr Mansur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Biruni" title="Al-Biruni">al-Biruni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_ibn_Ridwan" title="Ali ibn Ridwan">Ali ibn Ridwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ab%C5%AB_Is%E1%B8%A5%C4%81q_Ibr%C4%81h%C4%ABm_al-Zarq%C4%81l%C4%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī">Al-Zarqālī</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-Samh" title="Ibn al-Samh">Ibn al-Samh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham" title="Ibn al-Haytham">Alhazen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avicenna" title="Avicenna">Avicenna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-Saffar" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn al-Saffar">Ibn al-Saffar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kushyar_Gilani" title="Kushyar Gilani">Kushyar Gilani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Said_al-Andalusi" title="Said al-Andalusi">Said al-Andalusi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_ibn_Said_al-Sahli" title="Ibrahim ibn Said al-Sahli">Ibrahim ibn Said al-Sahli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Mu%27adh_al-Jayyani" title="Ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani">Ibn Mu'adh al-Jayyani </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Isfizari" title="Al-Isfizari">Al-Isfizari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ali_ibn_Khalaf" title="Ali ibn Khalaf">Ali ibn Khalaf</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">12th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nur_ad-Din_al-Bitruji" title="Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji">Al-Bitruji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avempace" title="Avempace">Avempace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Tufail" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn Tufail">Ibn Tufail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Kharaq%C4%AB" title="Al-Kharaqī">Al-Kharaqī</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Khazini" title="Al-Khazini">Al-Khazini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Samawal_al-Maghribi" title="Al-Samawal al-Maghribi">Al-Samawal al-Maghribi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_al-Salt" class="mw-redirect" title="Abu al-Salt">Abu al-Salt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Averroes" title="Averroes">Averroes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-Kammad" title="Ibn al-Kammad">Ibn al-Kammad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Aflah" title="Jabir ibn Aflah">Jabir ibn Aflah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Khayyam" title="Omar Khayyam">Omar Khayyam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharaf_al-Din_al-Tusi" title="Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi">Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">13th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-Banna%27_al-Marrakushi" title="Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi">Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al%E2%80%90Ha%27im_al%E2%80%90Ishbili" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn al‐Ha'im al‐Ishbili">Ibn al‐Ha'im al‐Ishbili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamal_ad-Din_Bukhari" title="Jamal ad-Din Bukhari">Jamal ad-Din</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alam_al-Din_al-Hanafi" title="Alam al-Din al-Hanafi">Alam al-Din al-Hanafi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Najm_al%E2%80%90Din_al%E2%80%90Misri" class="mw-redirect" title="Najm al‐Din al‐Misri">Najm al‐Din al‐Misri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhyi_al-Din_al-Maghribi" title="Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi">Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi" title="Nasir al-Din al-Tusi">Nasir al-Din al-Tusi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qutb_al-Din_al-Shirazi" title="Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi">Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shams_al-Din_al-Samarqandi" title="Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi">Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zakariya_al-Qazwini" title="Zakariya al-Qazwini">Zakariya al-Qazwini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mu%27ayyad_al-Din_al-Urdi" title="Mu'ayyad al-Din al-Urdi">al-Urdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athir_al-Din_al-Abhari" title="Athir al-Din al-Abhari">al-Abhari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Abi_Bakr_al%E2%80%90Farisi" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al‐Farisi">Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al‐Farisi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Ali_al-Hasan_al-Marrakushi" title="Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Marrakushi">Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Marrakushi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Ishaq_al-Tunisi" title="Ibn Ishaq al-Tunisi">Ibn Ishaq al-Tunisi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al%E2%80%90Raqqam" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibn al‐Raqqam">Ibn al‐Raqqam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Ashraf_Umar_II" title="Al-Ashraf Umar II">Al-Ashraf Umar II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fakhr_al-Din_al-Akhlati" title="Fakhr al-Din al-Akhlati">Fakhr al-Din al-Akhlati</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">14th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-Shatir" title="Ibn al-Shatir">Ibn al-Shatir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shams_al-Din_Abu_Abd_Allah_al-Khalili" title="Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah al-Khalili">Al-Khalili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_Shuayb" title="Ibn Shuayb">Ibn Shuayb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Muqri_Mohammed_al-Battiwi" title="Abu Muqri Mohammed al-Battiwi"> al-Battiwi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ab%C5%AB_al%E2%80%90%CA%BFUq%C5%ABl" class="mw-redirect" title="Abū al‐ʿUqūl">Abū al‐ʿUqūl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al-Wabkanawi" title="Al-Wabkanawi">Al-Wabkanawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nizam_al-Din_al-Nisapuri" class="mw-redirect" title="Nizam al-Din al-Nisapuri">Nizam al-Din al-Nisapuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abd_al-Rahman_al-Jadiri" title="Abd al-Rahman al-Jadiri"> al-Jadiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadr_al-Shari%27a_al-Asghar" title="Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar">Sadr al-Shari'a al-Asghar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fathullah_Shirazi" title="Fathullah Shirazi">Fathullah Shirazi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">15th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ali_Qushji" title="Ali Qushji">Ali Kuşçu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abd_al%E2%80%90Wajid" class="mw-redirect" title="Abd al‐Wajid">Abd al‐Wajid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamshid_al-Kashi" title="Jamshid al-Kashi">Jamshid al-Kashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Q%C4%81%E1%B8%8D%C4%AB_Z%C4%81da_al-R%C5%ABm%C4%AB" title="Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī">Kadızade Rumi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulugh_Beg" title="Ulugh Beg">Ulugh Beg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibt_al-Maridini" title="Sibt al-Maridini">Sibt al-Maridini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ibn_al-Majdi" title="Ibn al-Majdi">Ibn al-Majdi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%27Abd_al-%27Aziz_al-Wafa%27i" title="'Abd al-'Aziz al-Wafa'i">al-Wafa'i</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Ishaq_al-Kubunani" title="Abu Ishaq al-Kubunani">al-Kubunani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%27Abd_al-%27Aziz_al-Wafa%27i" title="'Abd al-'Aziz al-Wafa'i">'Abd al-'Aziz al-Wafa'i</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">16th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Birjandi" title="Al-Birjandi">Al-Birjandi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shams_al-Din_al-Khafri" title="Shams al-Din al-Khafri">al-Khafri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baha%27_al-din_al-%27Amili" class="mw-redirect" title="Baha' al-din al-'Amili">Baha' al-din al-'Amili </a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piri_Reis" title="Piri Reis">Piri Reis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taqi_ad-Din_Muhammad_ibn_Ma%27ruf" title="Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf">Takiyüddin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">17th</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yang_Guangxian" title="Yang Guangxian">Yang Guangxian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ehmed%C3%AA_Xan%C3%AE" title="Ehmedê Xanî">Ehmedê Xanî</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Achsasi_al_Mouakket" title="Al Achsasi al Mouakket">Al Achsasi al Mouakket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_al-Rudani" title="Muhammad al-Rudani">Muhammad al-Rudani</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Topics" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Topics</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Works" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Works</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Arabic_star_names" title="List of Arabic star names">Arabic star names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_calendar" title="Islamic calendar">Islamic calendar</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Aja%27ib_al-Makhluqat" title="Aja'ib al-Makhluqat">Aja'ib al-Makhluqat</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_the_Brethren_of_Purity" title="Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity">Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tabula_Rogeriana" title="Tabula Rogeriana">Tabula Rogeriana</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_Healing" title="The Book of Healing">The Book of Healing</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Remaining_Signs_of_Past_Centuries" title="The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries">The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><i><a href="/wiki/Zij" title="Zij">Zij</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfonsine_tables" title="Alfonsine tables">Alfonsine tables</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Huihui_Lifa" title="Huihui Lifa">Huihui Lifa</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Fixed_Stars" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Fixed Stars">Book of Fixed Stars</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toledan_Tables" title="Toledan Tables">Toledan Tables</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zij-i_Ilkhani" title="Zij-i Ilkhani">Zij-i Ilkhani</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zij-i_Sultani" title="Zij-i Sultani">Zij-i Sultani</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sullam_al-sama%27" title="Sullam al-sama'">Sullam al-sama'</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Astronomy_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world#Instruments" title="Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world">Instruments</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alidade" title="Alidade">Alidade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Analog_computer" title="Analog computer">Analog computer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aperture" title="Aperture">Aperture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armillary_sphere" title="Armillary sphere">Armillary sphere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astrolabe" title="Astrolabe">Astrolabe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astronomical_clock" title="Astronomical clock">Astronomical clock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armillary_sphere" title="Armillary sphere">Celestial globe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compass" title="Compass">Compass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compass_rose" title="Compass rose">Compass rose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dioptra" title="Dioptra">Dioptra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equatorial_ring" title="Equatorial ring">Equatorial ring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equatorium" title="Equatorium">Equatorium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Globe" title="Globe">Globe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graph_paper" title="Graph paper">Graph paper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mural_instrument" title="Mural instrument">Mural instrument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariner%27s_astrolabe" title="Mariner's astrolabe">Navigational astrolabe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Octant_(instrument)" title="Octant (instrument)">Octant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planisphere" title="Planisphere">Planisphere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quadrant_(instrument)" title="Quadrant (instrument)">Quadrant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sextant_(astronomy)" title="Sextant (astronomy)">Sextant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_square" title="Shadow square">Shadow square</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundial" title="Sundial">Sundial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schema_for_horizontal_dials" title="Schema for horizontal dials">Schema for horizontal sundials</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triquetrum_(astronomy)" title="Triquetrum (astronomy)">Triquetrum</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Almucantar" title="Almucantar">Almucantar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apsis" title="Apsis">Apogee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astrology_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world" title="Astrology in the medieval Islamic world">Astrology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astrophysics" title="Astrophysics">Astrophysics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axial_tilt" title="Axial tilt">Axial tilt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azimuth" title="Azimuth">Azimuth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celestial_mechanics" title="Celestial mechanics">Celestial mechanics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celestial_spheres" title="Celestial spheres">Celestial spheres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circular_orbit" title="Circular orbit">Circular orbit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle" title="Deferent and epicycle">Deferent and epicycle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation" title="Earth's rotation">Earth's rotation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orbital_eccentricity" title="Orbital eccentricity">Eccentricity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecliptic" title="Ecliptic">Ecliptic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elliptic_orbit" title="Elliptic orbit">Elliptic orbit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equant" title="Equant">Equant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galaxy" title="Galaxy">Galaxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geocentric_model" title="Geocentric model">Geocentrism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravitational_energy" title="Gravitational energy">Gravitational energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravity" title="Gravity">Gravity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heliocentrism" title="Heliocentrism">Heliocentrism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inertia" title="Inertia">Inertia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosmology_in_medieval_Islam" class="mw-redirect" title="Cosmology in medieval Islam">Islamic cosmology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moonlight" title="Moonlight">Moonlight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multiverse" title="Multiverse">Multiverse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muwaqqit" title="Muwaqqit">Muwaqqit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Axial_tilt" title="Axial tilt">Obliquity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parallax" title="Parallax">Parallax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Precession" title="Precession">Precession</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qibla" title="Qibla">Qibla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salah_times" title="Salah times">Salah times</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Specific_gravity" class="mw-redirect" title="Specific gravity">Specific gravity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spherical_Earth" title="Spherical Earth">Spherical Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sublunary_sphere" title="Sublunary sphere">Sublunary sphere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunlight" title="Sunlight">Sunlight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernova" title="Supernova">Supernova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temporal_finitism" title="Temporal finitism">Temporal finitism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trepidation" title="Trepidation">Trepidation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triangulation" title="Triangulation">Triangulation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tusi_couple" title="Tusi couple">Tusi couple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">Universe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Institutions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Al-Azhar_University" title="Al-Azhar University">Al-Azhar University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Knowledge" title="House of Knowledge">House of Knowledge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House_of_Wisdom" title="House of Wisdom">House of Wisdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_al-Qarawiyyin" title="University of al-Qarawiyyin">University of al-Qarawiyyin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astronomy_in_the_medieval_Islamic_world#Observatories" title="Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world">Observatories</a> <ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Constantinople_observatory_of_Taqi_ad-Din" title="Constantinople observatory of Taqi ad-Din">Constantinople (Taqi al-Din)</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Maragheh_observatory" title="Maragheh observatory">Maragheh</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Ulugh_Beg_Observatory" title="Ulugh Beg Observatory">Samarkand (Ulugh Beg)</a></span></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Influences</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy" title="Babylonian astronomy">Babylonian astronomy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_astronomy" title="Egyptian astronomy">Egyptian astronomy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_astronomy#Hellenistic_astronomy" title="Ancient Greek astronomy">Hellenistic astronomy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_astronomy" title="Indian astronomy">Indian astronomy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Influenced</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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