Mashallah ibn Athari

Māšā'allāh Ibn - Atari ( * before 762; † ca 815) was a Jewish astronomer and astrologer.

Life and work

Māšā'allāh ( the Jewish name was Manasseh ) lived and worked in the realm of the Abbasids in the city of Basra in Iraq today. His exact survival data are not known. He was involved in the astrological investigations concerning the date of the founding of the new imperial capital Baghdad on July 30, 762 In his works, traditional horoscopes dating between 762 and 809 At the time of al- Ma ʾ mun, which was 813 Caliph, he shall by Ibn an still have been alive - Nadim, so one assumes his death at 815.

He wrote many astrological works in which he recorded both concepts of Greek astrology, astronomy, and philosophy, as well as Sassanid and processed Indian astrological sources. His works have been seen in the Islamic world as authoritative and were read extensively in Latin translation also in the West.

The lunar crater Messala is named after him.

Works

List of Ibn an - Nadim

A list of Arab titles of his works is given by Ibn an - Nadim in the Fihrist. The following titles are:

  • Kita al - mawālid al - kabir ( " Great Book of nativities " )
  • Fi al - qirānāt wa 'l- Adyan wa ' l- milal ( " About conjunctions, peoples and religions " )
  • Kitaab al - Muttrah shu'ā ' ( "Book of the projection of rays" )
  • Kitaab al - Ma'aanee ( "Book of Definitions" )
  • Kitaab al - sana'at asturlāb wa ' l-' amal Biha ( book on design and use of the astrolabe )
  • Dhat al - Kitaab halaq ( " book on the armillary sphere " )
  • Kita al - amtār wa 'l- Riyah ( " book about rain and winds " )
  • Kitaab alsahmayn ( " book about two fates " )
  • Kitaab al - Ma'ruf bi ' wa' l-' Shrin ( " book known as the 27")
  • Kitaab al - huruf ( " About letters" )
  • Kitaab Al-Sultan ( " About Government")
  • Kitaab al - safar ( "On Travel " )
  • Kitaab al - as'ār ( " About Prizes")
  • Kitaab al - mawālid ( " About nativities " )
  • Kitaab al - Sini tạhwīl mawālīd ( "Over the years runs of nativities " )
  • Kitaab al - duwal wa 'l- milal ( " About dynasties and religions " )
  • Kitaab al - Hukm ' alā ' l- ijtimā'āt wa 'l- istiqbālāt ( " overvaluation according to the conjunctions and oppositions [ of the sun and the moon] " )
  • Al- Kitaab al - murdi ( " The pleasing book" )
  • Kitaab al - Suwar wa 'l- Hukm ' alāyhā ( " About constellations and their ratings " )

Translations

  • De revolutionibus annorum mundi ( translation of a lost work )
  • Epistola de rebus eclipsium or De ratione et Circuli Stellarum ( translation of John Hispalensis; Hebrew translation of Abraham ibn Ezra of 1148
  • Super significationibus planetarum in Nativitate ( translation of John Hispalensis )
  • De septem planetis
  • De reception tio ( translation of John Hispalensis )
  • De scientia motus orbis or De elementis et orbibus coelestibus ( translation by Gerard of Cremona )
  • De electionibus ( doubtful attribution )

The following translations will probably go to parts of the Kitāb al - Ma'ruf bi ' wa' l-' Shrin ( " book known as the 27") back:

  • De cogitationibus or De interrogationibus
  • De OCCULTIS
  • Liber iudiciorum
  • De interpretationibus

Expenditure

  • Works of Sahl and masha'Allah. Translation by Benjamin Dykes. Cazimi Press, Golden Valley, MN, 2008.
  • Masha'Allah: On Reception. Translation by Robert Hand. ARHAT Publications, Reston, VA, 1998.
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