Arabian Astrology: History of Arabian Astrology -- by James H. Holden - The Diigo Meta page

• 21 Apr 07
  

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  • reproduces an entire section of James Herschel Holden's recent book, "A History of Horoscopic Astrology"
  • 11th, the 9th, [and] finally the 5th
  • lord of the year
  • angle,
  • The Flowers of Astrology" or "The Book of Flowers
  • Warburg Institute, 1968
  • The Thousands of Abû Ma'shar
  • Kitâb al-ulûf or Book of the Thousands
  • then and there I swore that I would never discuss the science of astronomy [astrology] with the man in the street.
  • preserved in Arabic and in Greek and Latin
  • Sa'îd Shâdhân
  • white
  • Moon,
  • embroidery.
  • Mercury,
  • women.
  • Venus, clean
  • Sun, silk
  • red and pale shades
  • Mars,
  • religious
  • Jupiter,
  • sect will be black clothes
  • Saturn
  • Chapter 3 discusses the conjunctions that signify the advent of prophets or violent men [tyrants] and their characteristics
  • 1485 and again in 1489
  • inferior translation by Hermann of Carinthia
  • Introductorius maior was translated by John of Seville
  • The Great Conjunctions and The Great Introduction
  • fifty books
  • Ja'far ibn Muhammad Abû Ma'shar al-Balkhî (c.787-886)
  • The Latin Translations of the Astrological Works by Messahala
  • The Construction and Use of the Astrolabe
  • Reception of the Planets or Interrogations
  • Letter on Eclipses
  • Conjunctions,
  • The Revolutions of the Years of the World
  • The Revolution of the Years of Nativities
  • Indian Astrologers
  • Mâshâ'allâh
  • author of more than two dozen astrological treatises that were considered to be authoritative by both the Arabs and the Western Europeans.
  • participated in the founding of Baghdad
  • Jew from Basra who was the leading astrologer of the late 8th century
  • Messahalla,
  • 775 to 925 was the golden age of Arabian astrology
  • Indians had invented a symbol for zero
  • Arabic numerals
  • Albumasar is said to have constructed a set of his own based on a 360,000 year time period
  • Zîj al-Shâh or Tables of the King
  • fixed zodiac
  • Nativities,
  • Secrets of the Questions
  • Nativities, in Arabic
  • Naq (Nahaq)
  • Sanjahil
  • Jûdar
  • small
  • large
  • Secrets of Nativities; Conjunctions,
  • Calculations for Nativities
  • Caliph al-Ma'mûn (754-775)
  • Kankah
  • Baghdad
  • last half of the 8th century
  • books have been preserved more or less intact, along with fragments of their Arabic versions
  • houses.
  • annual and monthly predictions
  • Palchus
  • B yzantine >  astrologer John Abramius in the late 14th century >
  • year 1000
  • Zoroaster and Julian of Laodicea
  • second edition
  • you will not err, if God is willing
  • Mercury [makes] armed robberies and disorders and irregularities in life, or else it is called "the messenger," and it awards peace.
  • Mars also makes arsons and pestilential sicknesses and droughts and scarcities of fruits
  • not only does Mars activate war, but Saturn >  also accomplishes the ruin of kings and the taking of cities >
  • military astrology, partially based on Indian astrology
  • Works on Elections for Wars and Campaigns and Sovereignty
  • Theophilus wrote four treatises on astrology in Greek
  • court astrologer to the Caliph al-Mahdî (d.785)
  • Theophilus of Edessa
  • Mûsâ ibn Nawbakht (c.840-c.940)
  • Caliphs al-Ma'mûn (813-833), al-Wâthiq (842-847), and al-Mutawakil (847-861)
  • Caliph Hârûn al-Rashîd (reigned 786-809)
  • Abû Sahl ibn Nawbakht
  • Jewish astrologer Mâshâ'allâh
  • 31 July 762 at about 2 PM
  • court astrologer to the Caliph al-Mansûr
  • Nawbakht the Persian (c.679-777)

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