Article ID: CBB879296272

Gestation Times Correlated with Lunar Cycles. Ibn al-Kammād’s Animodar of Conception Across North Africa (2017)

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One of the subjects Arabic astrologers dealt with in the medieval era was the animodar of conception, which used lunar cycles to determine gestation times and to verify the degree of an ascendant, in accordance with one of the principles of Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Centiloquium. This paper investigates Ibn al-Kammād’s treatise on the animodar of conception edited and translated from Arabic manuscript 939 at the Real Biblioteca del Monasterio, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid. The special significance attached to the animodar by later astrologers had two consequences for Ibn al-Kammād’s treatise. First, the treatise, which was initially one of several parts of a book, has arrived to us as a self-contained piece, probably because it was already regarded as such in medieval times. Second, the initial contents in Ibn al-Kammād’s treatise gradually underwent a transformation due to the addition of a number of materials associated with the animodar.

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Authors & Contributors
Goldstein, Bernard R.
Yannick Bruneton
Mahdavi, Younes
Wright, Owen
Wei, Bing
Thom, Paul
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Astronomy
Astrology
Translations
Philosophy
Medicine
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10th century
Medieval
9th century
11th century
14th century
13th century
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Spain
Baghdad (Iraq)
Iraq
Japan
Europe
Korea
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Brethren of Purity (Ikhwān Al-Ṣafā)
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