The astrological history of Māshāʼallāh
By: [by] E. S. Kennedy and David Pingree.
Contributors: Pingree, David Edwin, 1933- joint author.; Māshāʼallāh, 730?-815?; Munich. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
Series: Harvard monographs in the history of science
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Brand: Harvard University Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng; ara
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Astrology, Arab
Notes: Includes Arabic text and English translation of fragments of a work by Māshāʼallāh, 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.
Appendices (p. 127-193):--Māshāʼallāh's Date of prophet's birth.--Māshāʼallāh's Fi qiyām al-khulafāʼ.--Māshāʼallāh's Kitāb al-mawālīd.--Additional horoscopes of Māshāʼallāh.--A note on the Flood date, and five horoscopes from an Erfurt MS.--Another note on the Flood date.