Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi

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Persian astrologer and philosopher (787-886)

ScientistsLived 787 to 886 · aged 99

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Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar, was an early Persian Muslim astrologer, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the Abbasid court in Baghdad.

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Page spread from the 1515 Venetian edition of Abu Ma'shar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus

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Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar, was an early Persian Muslim astrologer, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the Abbasid court in Baghdad. While he was not a major innovator, his practical manuals for training astrologers profoundly influenced Muslim intellectual history and, through translations, that of western Europe and Byzantium.