Author : Masha'allah
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781934586037
Dr. Benjamin Dykes produces essential new translations of traditional astrology texts for modern students. Persian Nativities I contains the first English translation of Masha'allah's natal work, The Book of Aristotle, and a new translation of his student Abu 'Ali al-Khayyat's influential On the Judgments of Nativities.
Author : Sahl Ibn Bishr
Publisher : American Federation of Astr
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Astrology
ISBN : 0866905812
Sahl lived in the first half of the 9th century. His five short treatises, Introduction to Astrology, The 50 Precepts, Judgments of Questions, Elections, and The Book of Times, appear to be the principal medieval source of rules for Horary Astrology and Elections. They constitute a corpus of detailed instruction for these two branches of Astrology. James Herschel Holden, the translator, is Research Director of the American Federation of Astrologers and is especially interested in early astrological works.
Author : Sahl Ibn Bishr
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781934586020
Sahl bin Bishr (Zahel) and Masha'allah were two of the most influential medieval astrologers from the Arabic period. This essential work in medieval astrology translates 16 of their works, most for the first time, and includes many charts and lengthy introductory remarks and explanations by the translator.
Author : Sahl Ibn Bishr
Publisher :
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2019-03-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781934586488
This volume presents six major works by the medieval astrologer Sahl b. Bishr, translated from Arabic into English by leading translator Benjamin Dykes.
Author : Benjamin Dykes
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781934586235
Choosing auspicious times to act was an important branch of traditional astrology. Choices & Inceptions is the largest modern-language collection of traditional works in electional astrology to date. Translated from the medieval Latin by Dr. Benjamin Dykes, this volume contains instructions on lunar mansions, several types of planetary hours, and three of the most important traditional works on "complete" elections: Sahl's On Elections, al-'Imrani's The Book of Choices, and al-Rijal's The Book of the Skilled VII. With a lengthy Introduction that analyzes various ethical and philosophical issues in elections, it is essential for contemporary astrologers.
Author : Liana Saif
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1137399473
Investigating the impact of Arabic medieval astrological and magical theories on early modern occult philosophy, this book argues that they provided a naturalistic explanation of astral influences and magical efficacy based on Aristotelian notions of causality.
Author : Benjamin N. Dykes
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2013-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781934586396
Astrology of the World I: The Ptolemaic Inheritance is the first in a series of three works of translations in traditional mundane astrology, from Latin and Arabic astrologers. Part 1 enumerates many methods of traditional weather prediction, including Lots and lunar mansions. Part 2 focuses on prices and commodities, predicting market fluctuations and supply and demand. Part 3 discusses the interpretation of eclipses and comets. Part 4 is an extensive look at chorography (assigning signs and planets to regions of the earth), including a complete discussion of climes and a guide to obscure place-names. Throughout, Dr. Benjamin Dykes provides commentary and extensive introductions to the astrology of Ptolemy, which is the basis of most of these techniques. It is a must-have for traditional astrologers and historians of astrology.
Author : Delacy O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317847482
First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic account of the most influential of these movements -how Hellenistic science passed to the Arabs where it took on a new life and led to the development of Arab astronomy and medicine which flourished in the courts of the Muslim world, later passing on to medieval Europe. Starting with the rise of Hellenism in Asia in the wake of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, O'Leary deals with the Greek legacy of science, philosophy, mathematics and medicine and follows it as it travels across the Near East propelled by religion, trade and conquest. Dealing in depth with Christianity as a Hellenizing force, the influence of the Nestorians and the Monophysites; Indian influences by land and sea and the rise of Buddhism, O'Leary then focuses on the development of science during the Baghdad Khalifate, the translation of Greek scientific material into Arabic, and the effect for all those interested in the history of medicine and science, and of historical geography as well as the history of the Arab world.
Author : Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9004212205
This volume offers the first critical edition, with English translation and commentary, of seven astrological treatises by Abraham Ibn Ezra: the Book of Elections (3 versions); the Book of Interrogations (3 versions); and the Book of the Luminaries.
Author : Benjamin N. Dykes
Publisher :
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781934586204
The Book of the Nine Judges is a famous medieval compendium of traditional horary astrology, compiled from Abu Ma'shar, Masha'allah, Sahl bin Bishr, 'Umar al-Tabari, al-Kindi, Abu 'Ali al-Khayyat, "Dorotheus," "Aristotle," and Jirjis. It is the largest known compendium of these sources on answering horary questions, and in many cases is the first modern translation of these Latin/Arabic authors. Complete with an introduction to questions by the translator, with numerous diagrams, tables, and an extensive glossary, it is essential for traditional astrologers.
