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Abū l-Ḥasan 'Alī ibn Abī l-Rijāl al-Shaybani ( ar, أبو الحسن علي ابن أبي الرجال) (commonly known as ''Haly'', ''Hali'', ''Albohazen Haly filii Abenragel'' or ''Haly Abenragel'', from ''ibn Rijal'') was an
De iudiciis astrorum, Basel, 1551; pdf format
(106 MB) 10th-century births 11th-century deaths Astrologers of the medieval Islamic world 11th-century people of Ifriqiya 11th-century astrologers {{Tunisia-bio-stub
Abū l-Ḥasan 'Alī ibn Abī l-Rijāl al-Shaybani ( ar, أبو الحسن علي ابن أبي الرجال) (commonly known as ''Haly'', ''Hali'', ''Albohazen Haly filii Abenragel'' or ''Haly Abenragel'', from ''ibn Rijal'') was an Arab
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astrologer of the late 10th and early 11th century, best known for his ''Kitāb al-bāri' fī aḥkām an-nujūm''.
Life
He was a court astrologer to theTunisia
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n prince al-Mu'izz ibn Bâdis in the first half of the 11th century. Haly died after 1037 in Kairouan
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in what is now Tunisia.
Works
His ''Kitāb al-bāri' fī aḥkām an-nujūm'' was translated by Yehudā ben Moshe into Old Castilian forAlfonso X of Castile
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in 1254 under the title ''El libro conplido en los iudizios de las estrellas'' ("The complete book on the judgment of the stars"). The only surviving manuscript
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of the Old Castilian translation is MS 3605 at the National Library in Madrid
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, which however only contains 5 of the 8 books of the complete Old Castilian translation. An edition created in 1523, created in Venice
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and presented in Latin, is held in the Qatar National Library.
In 1485 at Venice
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a complete copy of the Old Castilian manuscript was translated into Latin
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and published by Erhard Ratdolt
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The first book ...
as ''Praeclarissimus liber completus in judiciis astrorum'' ("The very famous complete book on the judgment of the stars"). This printing (and later Latin versions) is commonly known as ''De iudiciis astrorum'' (or ''De judiciis astrorum'').
His ''Tractatus de cometarum significationibus per xii signa zodiaci'' (''Treatise on the Significations of Comets in the twelve Signs of the Zodiac'') was printed in Nürnberg in 1563 as an addendum to Marcus Frytsch's ''Meteororum, hoc est, impressionum aerearum et mirabilium naturæ operum, loci ferè omnes ... Item catalogus prodigiorum atque ostentorum, tam cœlo quam in terra ... omnia ab authore recognita et locupletata. (Tractatus Albohazenhalii, filii Abenragelis, de cometarum significationibus per XII. signa Zodiaci.)''
Editions
*See also
* List of Arab scientists and scholars * Alchabitius * Biruni * Judicial astrologyReferences
External links
De iudiciis astrorum, Basel, 1551; pdf format
(106 MB) 10th-century births 11th-century deaths Astrologers of the medieval Islamic world 11th-century people of Ifriqiya 11th-century astrologers {{Tunisia-bio-stub