Al-Kabisov

(Abu-with-Saqr 'Abd al-`Aziz ibn` Uthman ibn `Ali al-Kabisov)
(? - 967, Zaragoza)
One of the most widely read writers in the Middle Ages, astrologers. Studied in Mosul from al-Imran, he worked in Aleppo (Syria) in the court hamdanidskogo Sultan Sayf al-Daula, in Europe, was known as Alkabitsius (Alcabitius, Alchabitius). K. was recognized specialist interpreter "Almagest" of Ptolemy. Among European astrologers, since the XII century. Was very popular with the Latin translation of his work "Introduction to the art of sentences stars" ( "Introduction to the Discourse of the stars"), made by John the Spanish in 1144, Mr.. (There was also a French translation in 1362). In this work provides a system of houses of the horoscope, later named after the K. (cm. Alkabitsiusa system houses). This work was written by a number of comments such well-known astrologers as d'Askoli Cecco, John Saxon and Valentin Nayboda. K. also belong to the treatise "In support of the art of astrology," "On the compounds of the planets in the signs of the Zodiac" and many other astrological works