Abu Bakr al-Hassan ibn al-Khasib, also al-Khaseb, Albubather in Latin, was a Persian

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of the 9th century. Abu Bakr ibn al-Khasil, al-Kharashi – De nativitatibus, 1501 – BEIC 11389369

He wrote in Persian and

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and is best known for his work ''De nativitatibus'' which was translated into Latin by

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1218, and was also translated into Hebrew; the book had many reprints till 1540.

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* ''Al-fihrist'' by

Ibn al-Nadim Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Nadīm ( ar, ابو الفرج محمد بن إسحاق النديم), also ibn Abī Ya'qūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Warrāq, and commonly known by the ''nasab'' (patronymic) Ibn al-Nadīm ...

, p. 276 and Commentary, p. 131. * H. Suter : Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (32, 1900) * Nachtrage (162, 1902) * Encyclopedia of Islam, II, 274, 1916. Year of birth unknown 9th-century deaths 9th-century Iranian physicians Medieval Iranian astrologers Physicians from the Abbasid Caliphate {{iran-med-bio-stub

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