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Abu Ali al-Khayyat (c.770 - c.835), often called by the Latin title Albohali in western sources, (or Albohali Alghihac, Albohali Alchait or Albenahait), was an Arab astrologer and a student of
Abu Ali al-Khayyat (c.770 - c.835), often called by the Latin title Albohali in western sources, (or Albohali Alghihac, Albohali Alchait or Albenahait), was an Arab astrologer and a student of Mashallah
''Mashallah'' ( ar, مَا شَاءَ ٱللَّٰهُ, '), also written Masha'Allah, Maşallah (Turkey and Azerbaijan), Masya Allah (Malaysia and Indonesia), Maschallah (Germany), and Mašallah ( Bosnia), is an Arabic phrase that is used to expre ...
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Al-Khayyat's ''Kitāb al-Mawālid'', "Book of Birth", was translated into Latin by Plato of Tivoli Plato Tiburtinus ( la, Plato Tiburtinus, "Plato of Tivoli"; fl. 12th century) was a 12th-century Italian mathematician, astronomer and translator who lived in Barcelona from 1116 to 1138. He is best known for translating Hebrew and Arabic document ...
in 1136, and again by Johannes Hispalensis in 1153, and this last translation was printed in Nuremberg in 1546 under the title ''Albohali Arabis astrologi antiquissimi ac clarissimi de iudiciis nativitatum liber unus antehac non editus. Cum privilegio D. Iohanni Shonero concesso''.
Elements of his ''Kitāb Sirr al-ʿamal'', "Book of the secret action", are also reproduced in the 12th century ''Book of Nine Judges'', compiled by Hugo of Santalla. The material has been described as being largely taken from the work of Mashalla but in several places borrowing from the work of Omar Tiberiades.
Works
* ''Kitāb Sirr al-ʿamal'' "Book of the secret action" - an English translation of the extracts that appear in the ''Book of Nine Judges'' was made in 2011 by Benjamin N. Dykes (Minneapolis: Cazimi Press). * ''Kitāb al-Mawālid'' "Book of Birth"- an English translation was made by James Herschel Holden, ''The Judgments of Nativities'' (Tempe, Az.: A.F.A., Inc., 2008) from the 1546 Nuremberg edition.See also
*Latin translations of the 12th century
Latin translations of the 12th century were spurred by a major search by European scholars for new learning unavailable in western Europe at the time; their search led them to areas of southern Europe, particularly in central Spain and Sicily, w ...
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Writers of the medieval Islamic world Astrologers of the medieval Islamic world Astronomers from the Abbasid Caliphate 830s deaths Year of birth unknown 9th-century astrologers Year of birth uncertain 9th-century Arabs {{astrology-stub