Type: Person

Name: Albumasar

Dates: 787 — 886

Gender: male

Variant names: Abû Ma`shar Dja`far b. Muhammad `Umar al-Balkhî

Biographical details: Floruit; author of works on astronomy and astrology, influential for twelfth- and thirteenth-century western philosophy; Enc. Islam, I 139-40.

Editor: MAPF

Start of time period: 8th century AD

End of time period: 9th century AD

Period: early medieval

Characterisation: unknown