Abu'l-'Anbas Saymari Mohammad bin Eshaq bin Abi'l-'Anbas bin Al-Maghira bin Mahan ( fa, ابوالعنباس صیمری; ar, أبو العنبس محمّد بن إسحاق بن إبراهيم الصيمري) was an

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

astrologer Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that claim to discern information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects. Di ...

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either o ...

, poet and author. He was born in 213/828 in

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, and died in 275/889. He seems to have spent much of his time at the

caliph A caliphate or khilāfah ( ar, خِلَافَة, ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (; ar, خَلِيفَة , ), a person considered a political-religious successor to th ...

al court from Motawakkel's reign (847861) to Moʿtamed's (870892). His great-great-grandfather's name, and his knowledge of the

Sasanian The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the History of Iran, last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th cen ...

astrologers Zaradūšt and Bozorjmehr, indicates that he was of Iranian origin.

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* (''Book of the Refutation of Astrologers''), lost; * (''Book of Judgements of the Stars''), lost; * (''Book of the Introduction to the Art of Astrology''), perhaps identical with no. 5; * (''Book of Nativities''), lost; * (''Book of the Introduction to the Science of the Stars''); * (''Book on Stellar Computation''); * .

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