The astrological history of Māshāʼallāh /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1971.
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| Series: | Harvard monographs in the history of science.
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| Item Description: | Includes Arabic text and English translation of fragments of a work by Māshāʼallāh, presumably his Kitāb al-qirānāt wa-al-adyān wa-al-milal as preserved in Ibn Hibintā's al-Mughnī fī al-nujūm. The text is reproduced in facsimile from Arabic MS. no. 852, leaves 214v to 233v, in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich. Appendices (p. 127-193):--Māshāʼallāh's Date of prophet's birth.--Māshāʼallāh's Fi quyām al-khulataʼ.--Māshāʼallah's Kitāb al-mawālīd.--Additional horoscopes of Māshāʼallah.--A note on the Flood date, and five horoscopes from an Erfurt MS.--Another note on the Flood date. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 206 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0674050258 |