PERSON
Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī
| Name (arabic) |
أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد بن عمر البلخي
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| Name (translit) |
Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Balkhī
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| Alias |
Abū Maʿshar
Abī Maʿshar al-Balkhī
ابي معشر البلخي
جعفر بن محمد بن عمر البلخي ابو معشر
Albumasar
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| Born |
0787 CE/ 0171 AH
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| Flourished |
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| Died |
0886 CE/ 0272 AH
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| Lived in |
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| Number in MAMS |
88
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| Biography URL |
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98608
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Authored Works
22 works:Astrology
al-Madḫal al-kabīr ilỳ ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm , المدخل الكبير إلى علم أحكام النجوم
al-Madḫal al-ṣaġīr , المدخل الصغير
Kitāb aḥkām al-nujūm , کتاب أحکام النجوم
Kitāb aḥkām al-qirānāt wa-al-kawākib wa-al-burūj al-iṯnỳ ʿašaraẗ , کتاب أحکام القرانات والکواکب والبروج الإثني عشرة
Kitāb al-mawālīd , کتاب المواليد
Kitāb al-qawāriʿ , کتاب القوارع
Kitāb al-sirr , کتاب السرّ
Kitāb asrār al-nujūm , کتاب أسرار النجوم
Kitāb fī aḥkām al-nujūm wa- ittiṣālātihā , کتاب في أحکام النجوم وإتّصالاتها
Kitāb mawālīd al-rijāl wa-al-nisāʾ , کتاب مواليد الرجال والنساء
Kitāb zīj al-hazārāt , کتاب زيج الهزارات
Muḫtaṣar dar ʿilm-i nujūm , مختصر در علم نجوم
Astronomical Tables/zījes
al-Zīj al-ṣaġīr , الزيج الصغير
Kitāb iḫtilāf al-zījāt , کتاب إختلاف الزيجات
Astronomy: General
al-Malḥamāt al-Marwiyyaẗ ʿan al-šuhūr al-rūmiyyaẗ , الملحمات المرويّة عن الشهور الروميّة
Astronomy: Practical
Dar bayān-i sāʿāt-i šab wa rūz , در بیان ساعات شب و روز
Kitāb al-awqāt , کتاب الأوقات
Kitāb al-awqāt ʿalỳ iṯnỳ ʿašariyyaẗ al-kawākib , کتاب الأوقات علی اثنی عشريّة الکواکب
Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Kitāb hayʾaẗ al-falak wa-iḫtilāf ṭulūʿihi , کتاب هيئة الفلك وإختلاف طلوعه
Mathematics: Recreational
Risālah dar wafq-i aʿdād , رساله در وفق اعداد
Number Theory
Maqālaẗ fī al-aʿdād al-mutaḥābbaẗ wa-ḫawāṣṣihā , مقالة في الأعداد المتحابّة وخواصّها
OTHER
Kitāb al-asrār fī maʿrifaẗ aḍlāʿ al-ḍamāʾir , کتاب الأسرار في معرفة أضلاع الضمائر
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Maʿshar, Abū. 2000. Abū Maʿshar on Historical Astrology: The Book of Religions and Dynasties (On the Great Conjunctions). Eds. Charles Burnett and Keiji Yamamoto. 2 vol. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
Gutas, Dimitri. 1998. Greek Thought, Arabic Culture: The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement in Baghdad and Early ʿAbbāsid Society (2nd-4th 8th-10th Centuries). London; New York: Routledge.
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