Re: VMs: New guy on the block

[Khem Caigan <Khem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling writes:
> 
> Even though I've read a lot about the Nabataeans, Bakr Ahmad ibn Ali ibn
> Qais ibn Wahsiyah an-Nabati ("an-Nabati" from now on, puh-lease) doesn't
> appear to have appeared on the VMS radar (and certainly not on mine) to
> date... a very interesting lead! :-)


 It's possible that you may recognize him as Ibn Wahshiya, the author of
the "Kitab al-falaha al-nabatiya", which is known through Chwolsohn's
translation as 'Nabataean Agriculture', and the source for much of the
material in al-Majriti's "Picatrix", aka "Ghayat al-Hakim".

Picatrix (The Aim of the Sage)
http://www.esotericarchives.com/picatrix.htm

Age of Translations from about 750 to about 900.
http://www.islam4all.com/new_page_73.htm#2


Aut Inveniam Viam Aut Faciam,


~ Khem Caigan
<Khem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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