Philosophising the Occult Avicennan Psychology and 'The Hidden Secret' of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzīby: Michael Noble Was it mere encyclopedism that motivated Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.1210), one of the most influential Islamic theologians of the twelfth century, to theorize on astral…
Prognostication in the Medieval World A HandbookEdited by: Matthias Heiduk, Klaus Herbers, Hans-Christian Lehner Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of…
Abraham Ibn Ezra Latinus on Elections and Interrogations A Parallel Latin-English Critical Edition of Liber Electionum, Liber Interrogationum, and Tractatus Particulares. Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Writings, Volume 7 Edited and translated by Shlomo Sela As a result of Abraham Ibn Ezra’s…
On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar: Studies in the history of medieval astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib by Julio Samsó In On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar Julio Samsó studies the history of medieval astronomy…
Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem and Its Reception by Ovanes Akopyan In Debating the Stars, Ovanes Akopyan sheds new light on the astrological controversies that arose in the late fifteenth and early…
Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages Edited by David Juste, Benno van Dalen, Dag Nikolaus Hasse, and Charles Burnett Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100-170 ad) is one of the most influential scholars of all time. While he is also…
A Note on the Indian Planetary Exaltations and their Greek-Language Sources, by Martin Gansten A close examination of the lists of planetary exaltations given by two of the earliest known Sanskrit authors on horoscopic astrology – Mīnarāja and Sphujidhvaja –…
The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology, dealing particularly with the casting and interpretation of anniversary horoscopes, that now is available in English edited, translated, and annotated by Martin Gansten. Authored in…
This new book in German language, by Stephan Heilen, addresses aspects of one of the core doctrines of astrological prognostication. Of Perso-Arabic origin, conjunction astrology bypasses individual birth horoscopes in favor of those rare conjunctions of planets on which historical…
A valuable tool of the History of Astrology has become available again. Collected by David Juste, the AstroBibl is the largest bibliography of the history of Western astrology currently available on the web. It includes c. 4 500 titles arranged by period…