The Great Introduction to Astrology by Abū Maʿšar (2 volumes) / Keiji Yamamoto, Charles Burnett.

• VerfasserIn: Yamamoto, Keiji.
• Author: Burnett, Charles,
• TeilnehmendeR: Burnett, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston : : BRILL,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 106.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1,435 pages).

Abū Ma’͑šar’s Great Introduction to Astrology (mid-ninth century) is the most comprehensive and influential text on astrology in the Middle Ages. In addition to presenting astrological doctrine, it provides a detailed justification for the validity of astrology and establishes its basis within the natural sciences of the philosophers. These two volumes provide a critical edition of the Arabic text; a facing English translation, which includes references to the divergences in the twelfth-century Latin translations of John of Seville and Hermann of Carinthia (Volume 1); and the large fragment of a Greek translation (edited by David Pingree). Comprehensive Arabic, English, Greek and Latin glossaries enable one to trace changes in vocabulary and terminology as the text passed from one culture to another. (Volume 2.)

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- ‮كتاب المدخل الكبير الی علم احكام النجوم لابي معشر البلخي‬ -- ‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪‪ Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- Part IV -- Part V -- Part VI -- Part VII -- Part VIII -- Introduction / David Pingree -- Ἡ Εἰσαγωγὴ τοῦ Ἀπομάσαρ -- Contents -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- Part IV -- Part V -- Part VI -- Part VII -- Part VIII -- Back Matter -- Additions in John of Seville’s Translation of the Great Introduction -- Additional and Distinctive Features of Hermann of Carinthia’s Translation of the Great Introduction -- Arabic, English, Greek and Latin Glossary -- Greek-Arabic Glossary -- Latin-Arabic Glossary.