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Author: Masha'allah
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9781934586037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. 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:
Published: 2019-03-08
Total Pages: 834
ISBN-13: 9781934586488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents six major works by the medieval astrologer Sahl b. Bishr, translated from Arabic into English by leading translator Benjamin Dykes.
Author: Sahl Ibn Bishr
Publisher: American Federation of Astr
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0866905812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSahl 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:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781934586020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSahl 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: Liana Saif
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1137399473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigating 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 Dykes
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9781934586235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChoosing 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: Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-09-09
Total Pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9004212205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Edward Stewart Kennedy
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 1956
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780871694621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe source material for the study of medieval oriental astronomy consists of Byzantine Greek, Sanscrit, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish astronomical and astrological manuscripts. If one desires to build up a detailed picture of Islamic astronomy, one can choose material from these available manuscripts. Of these manuscripts it is possible to isolate a group of works, the "zijes". A "zij" consists of the numerical tables and accompanying explanation sufficient to measure time and to compute planetary and stellar positions, appearance, and eclipses. This paper is a survey of the number, distribution, contents, and relations between "zijes" written in Arabic or Persian during the period from the 8th through the 15th centuries. Illustrations. Oversize.
Author: Benjamin N. Dykes
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Published: 2011-12
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9781934586204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Salo Wittmayer Baron
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780231088459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
