Agency and Effect in the Astrology of Abū Maʿshar of Balkh (Albumasar)

Abstract The aim of this paper is to show how the ninth-century astrologer, Abū Maʿshar Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-Balkhī, accounted for generation, corruption and change in the sublunary world. He sides with the philosophers against the astrologers and takes as his principal source the Peripate...

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Main Author: Burnett, Charles (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2019
In: Oriens
Year: 2019, Volume: 47, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 348-364
Further subjects:B Abū Maʿshar
B celestial effects
B Astrology
B action and passion
B al-Kindī
B Peripatetic tradition
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