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Islamic astronomy --- Islamic astrology --- Islamic astrology. --- Islamic astronomy. --- History. --- Muslim astronomy --- Astronomy --- Astrology

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Este libro contiene una edición y comentario del Kitāb al-amṭār wa l-as‘ār de Abū ‘Abd Allāh al-Baqqār (Marruecos, primera mitad del siglo XV), el primer tratado magrebí conocido sobre astrometeorología (predicción de la caída de lluvias por procedimientos astrológicos) y sus repercusiones en la subida y bajada de precios de productos agrícolas. El texto, conservado en un único manuscrito de la Biblioteca de El Escorial, constituye una fuente importante para el estudio de la historia de la astrología en al-Andalus y el Magrib en la Edad Media. En lo que se refiere a al-Andalus, al-Baqqār reproduce largos pasajes en los que se describe el antiguo procedimiento de predicción astrológica denominado “sistema de las cruces”, conocido en al-Andalus desde finales del siglo VIII y descrito en el Libro de las cruzes de Alfonso X, así como 91 versos de un poema inédito de Ibn al-Jayyāṭ, astrólogo andalusí del siglo XI, sobre el paso de Saturno por cada uno de los signos zodiacales.

Mécanique céleste --- Astrologie mediévale --- Astrologie arabe --- Astronomy, Medieval --- Celestial mechanics --- Islamic astrology --- Ouvrages avant 1800. --- Early works to 1800. --- History

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Celestial mechanics --- Astronomy, Medieval --- Islamic astrology --- Baqqār, Abū ʻAbd Allāh. - Kitāb al-adwār fī tasyīr al-anwār. - 1, - Fī bayān ḥarakat al-falak al-kullīya

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About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. Lost Maps of the Caliphs provides the first general overview of The Book of Curiosities and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought. Opening with an account of the remarkable discovery of the manuscript and its purchase by the Bodleian Library, the authors use The Book of Curiosities to re-evaluate the development of astrology, geography, and cartography in the first four centuries of Islam. Their account assesses the transmission of Late Antique geography to the Islamic world, unearths the logic behind abstract maritime diagrams, and considers the palaces and walls that dominate medieval Islamic plans of towns and ports. Early astronomical maps and drawings demonstrate the medieval understanding of the structure of the cosmos and illustrate the pervasive assumption that almost any visible celestial event had an effect upon life on Earth. Lost Maps of the Caliphs also reconsiders the history of global communication networks at the turn of the previous millennium. It shows the Fatimid Empire, and its capital Cairo, as a global maritime power, with tentacles spanning from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley and the East African coast. As Lost Maps of the Caliphs makes clear, not only is The Book of Curiosities one of the greatest achievements of medieval mapmaking, it is also a remarkable contribution to the story of Islamic civilization that opens an unexpected window to the medieval Islamic view of the world.

Geography, Medieval --- Astronomy, Medieval --- Islamic astrology --- Cosmography --- Maps. --- Early works to 1800. --- Gharāʼib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʻuyūn. --- Astrology --- Medieval astronomy --- Geography --- Medieval geography --- E-books --- 912 <62> --- 912:297 --- 912 <15> --- 912 <15> Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Kosmos --- 912 <15> Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Kosmos --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Kosmos --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Kosmos --- 912:297 Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Islam. Mohammedanisme --- 912:297 Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen-:-Islam. Mohammedanisme --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses-:-Islam. Mohammedanisme --- 912 <62> Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Noord-Afrikaanse Staten. Egypte. Noord-Afrika --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Noord-Afrikaanse Staten. Egypte. Noord-Afrika --- 912 <62> Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--North-African States. Egypt. North-Africa --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--North-African States. Egypt. North-Africa