Popular topicsLatest ContributorsLatest IssuesIn response to “”cultivated in Al-Andalus, the part of the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule, during the early ninth century. This was mainly due to the fact that astronomy was necessary for the practice of astrology. The Muslim rulers relied on the predictive powers of a team of astrologers to provide them with useful information for decision-making. A group of poet-astrologers who served the courts of the emirs al-akam I (r. 796–822) and his son ʽAbd al-Ramān II (r. 822–852) are well attested in historical sources. The historian Ibn ayyān...…Popular topicsLatest ContributorsLatest IssuesIn response to “”cultivated in Al-Andalus, the part of the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule, during the early ninth century. This was mainly due to the fact that astronomy was necessary for the practice of astrology. The Muslim rulers relied on the predictive powers of a team of astrologers to provide them with useful information for decision-making. A group of poet-astrologers who served the courts of the emirs al-akam I (r. 796–822) and his son ʽAbd al-Ramān II (r. 822–852) are well attested in historical sources. The historian Ibn ayyān...WW…
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