Omar Tiberiades or Abû Hafs 'Umar ibn Farrukhân Tabarî (d. ca. 815), (

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

ابن فرخان طبری) was a

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astrologer and architect from

Tabaristan Tabaristan or Tabarestan ( fa, طبرستان, Ṭabarestān, or mzn, تبرستون, Tabarestun, ultimately from Middle Persian: , ''Tapur(i)stān''), was the name applied to a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran. ...

. The historical Tabaristan region is in the present-day Mazandaran Province of northern Iran.

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Around the year 800, Tiberiades translated the

Middle Persian Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle ...

version of the ''Pentateuch'' by

Dorotheus of Sidon Dorotheus of Sidon ( grc-gre, Δωρόθεος Σιδώνιος, c. 75 CE - ?? CE) was a 1st-century Greek astrologer and astrological poet, who, during the Hellenistic Period, wrote a didactic poem on horoscopic astrology in Greek, known as the ...

. He translated the five books into the

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. A Latin translation of his book was often quoted by Western astrologers.

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* Iranian architects Medieval architects Year of birth unknown 815 deaths Medieval Iranian astrologers History of Mazandaran Province Tabaristan People from Amol 9th-century Iranian people 9th-century astrologers 9th-century translators Middle Persian–Arabic translators {{astrology-stub

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