Omar Tiberiades
Omar Tiberiades or Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar ibn al-Farrukhān al-Tabari (d. ca. 815), (Persian أبو حفص عمر بن الفرخان الطبري) was a Medieval Persian astrologer and architect from Tabaristan.[1][2]
The historical Tabaristan region is in the present-day Mazandaran Province of northern Iran. He was part of a group of astrologers, including Naubakht, Mashallah ibn Athari and Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, who was asked by Caliph al-Mansur to choose a favorable time for the founding of Baghdad (July 30, 762). The last date in which at-Tabari is mentioned is the month of Shawwal 196 AH (from June 15 to July 13, 812), when he completed The Four Books (commentary to Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos).
Works
[edit]Around the year 800, Tiberiades translated the Middle Persian version of the Pentateuch by Dorotheus of Sidon. He translated the five books into the Arabic language.[2]
A Latin translation of his book was often quoted by Western astrologers.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Latham, J.D.; Serjeant, R.B. (2006). Young, M.J.L. (ed.). Religion, learning, and science in the ʻAbbasid period (1 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 293. ISBN 9780521028875.
These Iranian astrologers include Nawbakht, Masha'allah b. Athari al-Basri and Abu Hafs 'Umar b. al-Farrukhan al-Tabari
- ^ a b Holden, James H. (2006). A History of Horoscopic Astrology (Second ed.). American Federation of Astrologers. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-86690-463-6 – via Google Books.
External links
[edit]- Pingree, David. "ʿUmar Ibn Al-Farrukhān Al-Ṭabarī". Encyclopedia.com.
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