Sahl ibn Bishr
Template:Short description Sahl ibn Bishr al-IsrailiTemplate:Efn (c. 786–c. 845)Template:Efn was a Jewish[1][2][3] or Syriac Christian[4][5] astrologer,[6] astronomer and mathematician from Tabaristan. He was the father of Ali ibn Sahl the scientist and physician, who became a convert to Islam.[7]
He served as astrologer to the governor of Khuristan and then to the vizier of Baghdad. He wrote books on astronomy, astrology, and arithmetic, all in Arabic.[8]
His works
Sahl is believed to be the first who translated the Almagest of Ptolemy into Arabic.
Sahl ibn Bishr wrote in the Greek astrological tradition. Sahl's first five books were preserved in the translation of John of Seville (Johannes Hispanus) (c. 1090 – c. 1150). See the English translation by Holden. The sixth book deals with three thematic topics regarding the influences on the world and its inhabitants was translated by Herman of Carinthia. The work contains divinations based on the movements of the planets and comets.
- The Introduction to the Science of the Judgments of the Stars. Translated by James Herschel Holden (Tempe, Az.: A.F.A., Inc., 2008)ix, 213 pp.
There are some books by Sahl ibn Bishr in Arabic such as:
- Ahkam fi al-Nujum ("Laws of the Astrology")
- Kitab al-ikhtiyarat 'ala al-buyut al-ithnai 'ashar ("Book of elections according to the twelve houses").
- al-Masa'il al-Nujumiyah ("The astrological problems")
Notes
References
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- ↑ Astronomy and the Jewish Community in Early Islam January 2001, Aleph Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 1(1):17-57 Bernard R. Goldstein
- ↑ Said al-Andalusi, Ṭabaqāt al-‘Umam, 1068 - in Catégories des nations, translated in french by Régis Blachère, Paris: Larose, 1935, p. 157.
- ↑ SAHL called Rabban, Jewish Encyclopedia.
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