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The Goal of the Sage (Ghayat al-Hakim)

Oxford, Marsh 155 was Helmut Ritter’s favourite manuscript for his Arabic edition of the Ghāya, which is understandable (although it is not mine). It is complete, clear, and dated: 22

Bibliomancy: @amila295 II.7"As for the line, it is [necessary] for [understanding] the collinearity that exists between the planets and the talisman, and the collinearity between the talisman and the purpose

Some sources to supplement the episode on Islamic(ate) astrology on @AbbasidHistory podcast.1) Abū Maʿshar, Kitāb al-Madkhal al-kabīr ilā ʿilm aḥkām al-nujūm (The Great Introduction to Astrology), edited and translated by