ICoN 142
Type: Person
Name: Albumasar
Name: Albumasar
Dates: 787 886
Gender: male
Variant names: Abû Ma`shar Dja`far b. Muhammad `Umar al-Balkhî
Biographical details: Floruit; author of works on astronomy and astrology, influential for twelfth- and thirteenth-century western philosophy; Enc. Islam, I 139-40.
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Editor: MAPF
Start of time period: 8th century AD
End of time period: 9th century AD
Period: early medieval
Characterisation: unknown
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