Abu ʿAli al-Chayyat

Edition of Albohalis De Iudiciis Natiuitatum , Nuremberg, 1546.

Abu 'Ali al-Chayyat (أبو علي الخياط Abu Ali al-Chaiyat , approx. 770 - approx. 835), called Albohali or Albohali Alghihac , Albohali Alchait or Albenahait in Western European sources, was an Arabic astrologer and student of the Jewish astronomer and astrologer Māschā'allāh ibn Atharī .

Al-Chayyats Kitāb al-Mawālid , "Book of Birth", was translated into Latin by Plato of Tivoli in 1136 , and again in 1153 by Johannes Hispalensis . In 1546 the translation of John was published in Nuremberg under the title Albohali Arabis astrologi antiquissimi ac clarissimi de iudiciis nativitatum liber unus antehac non editus. Cum privilegio D. Iohanni Shonero concesso printed.

Passages from his Kitāb Sirr al-'Amal ("Book of Hidden Happenings"), which is based on the writings of Māshā'allāh ibn Atharī and the Persian architect and astrologer Omar Tiberiades, can also be found in the "Book of the Nine Judges", published in 12th century by Hugo von Santalla .

Works

• Kitāb Sirr al-'Amal - "Book of Hidden Happenings". English translation of the text passages by Albohali in: Benjamin N. Dykes: Book of Nine Judges . Cazimi Press, Minneapolis 2011, ISBN 978-1-934586-20-4 .
• Kitāb al-Mawālid - "Book of Birth". English translation of the Latin edition, Nuremberg, 1546 in: James Herschel Holden: The Judgments of Nativities . American Federation of Astrologers, Tempe, AZ 2008, ISBN 978-0-86690-339-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

See also

• Latin translations in the High Middle Ages

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Benjamin N. Dykes: Book of Nine Judges . Cazimi Press, Minneapolis 2011, ISBN 978-1-934586-20-4 , pp. 6 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} M.T. Houtsma, E. van Donzel: EJ Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913-1936 . Brill, Leiden, S. 875 ( limited preview in Google Book search).