Format:
xiv, 206 p
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illus., facsims
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24 cm
ISBN:
0674050258
Series Statement:
Harvard monographs in the history of science
Uniform Title:
al-Qirānāt wa-'l-adyān wa-'l-milal 〈engl.〉
Note:
Includes Arabic text and English translation of fragments of a work by Māshāʾallāh, 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
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Appendices (p. 127-193):--Māshāʾallāh's Date of prophet's birth.--Māshāʾallāh's Fi qiyām al-khulafāʾ.--Māshāʾallāh's Kitāb al-mawālīd.--Additional horoscopes of Māshāʾallāh.--A note on the Flood date, and five horoscopes from an Erfurt MS.--Another note on the Flood date
Language:
English
Author information:
Māšāʾallāh Ibn-Aṯarī 740-815
Author information:
Pingree, David Edwin 1933-2005
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