The Astrological History of Māshāʾallāh
E. S. Kennedy, David Pingree. . Harvard Monographs in the History of Science, 5. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971.
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Edition, translation and analysis of the fragments of Māshāʾallāh's Arabic historical-astrological writing, transmitted through a Latin epitome and a Byzantine Greek excerpt. The primary source for the astrologers' role in the 762 election of the moment for founding Baghdad. ISBN and publisher record confirmed against Harvard University Press's own series listing and the contemporary review in the British Journal for the History of Science.
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- Abū Maʿshar
- For the generation of Baghdad astrologers immediately before him.
- Māshāʾallāh
- Edition, translation and analysis of the surviving fragments.
- The Graeco-Arabic Translation Movement
- For the astrologers active at the Abbasid court in the movement's first decades.