Ibn Hibintā (fl. 950) was a Christian in Iraq known from an Arabic manuscript on Islamic astrology ''al-Mughnī fī aḥkām al-nujūm'', the second part of which is preserved in Munich. Hibinta's lived during the reign of the Buwayhid rulers Ahmad ibn Buwayh (946–949) and ʿAḍūd al-Dawla (949–982) at Baghdad. His only known work, the Kitab al-Mughnī fī aḥkām al-nujūm (literally, the enriching book of the judgement of the stars) includes notes from Ptolemy,

Dorotheus of Sidon Dorotheus of Sidon (, 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 ''Pentateuch'' (Πεντάτευχος; lit. ...

, al-Khwarizmi and the Indian astrologer Kanaka. A manuscript copy of the second part is held as Arabic Codex 852 at the

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek The Bavarian State Library (, abbreviated BSB, called ''Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis'' before 1919) in Munich is the central "State libraries of Germany, Landesbibliothek", i. e. the state library of the Free State of Bavaria, the biggest u ...

, Munich.

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