Astronomy and Astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib

Contents: Preface. Part 1 Al-Andalus: A social approximation to the history of the exact sciences in al-Andalus; Maslama al-Majriti and the star table in the treatise De mensura astrolabii; 7 chapters of Ibn al-Saffar's lost zij (with M. Castells); Ibn al-Zarqalluh on Mercury (with H. Mielgo); World astrology in 11th-century al-Andalus: the epistle on tasyir and the projection of rays by al-Istijji (with H.Berrani); 'Al-Biruni' in al-Andalus; Ibn al-Haytham and Jabir b. Aflah's criticism of Ptolemy's determination of the parameters of Mercury. Part 2 The Maghrib: The computation of planetary longitudes in the zij of Ibn al-Banna (with E. Millás); Andalusian astronomy in 14th-century Fez: al-Zij al-Muwafiq of Ibn Azzuz al-Qusantini; Horoscopes and history: Ibn Azzuz and his retrospective horoscopes related to the battle of El Salado (1340); An outline of the history of Maghribi zijes from the end of the 13th century; Astronomical observations in the Maghrib in the 14th and 15th centuries; On the lunar tables in Sanjaq Dar's Zij al-Sharif. Part 3 The Introduction of Alfonsine Astronomy in the Arab World through the Arabic Translations of Zacut's Almanach Perpetuum: Abraham Zacut and José Vizinho's Almanach Perpetuum in Arabic (16th-19th centuries); On the Arabic translation of the colophon of the Almanach Perpetuum; In pursuit of Zacut's Almanach Perpetuum in the eastern Islamic world; Addenda et corrigenda; Indexes.