Talk:Arabian Astrology

Arabian astrology seems to be a misnomer. Arabian is a description of an ethnic groups of nomads who remained outside the civilisations of the Romano-Hellenistic and Persian Empires until the invasions they made into the civilised world in the 7th century. It was only from the 10th century that the spread of Arabic as a language filtered down from the ruling Arabic conquistadores. There is no textual or other evidence for any form of astrology in the Arabic before the Invasions. It would be more correct to describe the astrological practice of the Islamic or Mohametean cultures as Byzanto-Persian with Indian influences. A more accurate look at the individuals involved in this branch of astrological culture would reveal that they are for the vast majority non-Arabs, mostly Persians, or from areas ruled by the Persian-Islamo Empire. Modern PC parlance wishes to describe these astrologers as Islamic, but that is a misnomer as well: Islamic is a code word for Middle Eastern, and the cultural heritage of the Middle East is much richer and longer than the rather tardive advent of a religio-politico cult of nomadic conquest known as 'Islam' or Mohameteanism. Lorenzo Smerillo

--Lorenzo 02:36, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I looked it up in google: three possible terms are available for the astrology in early islamic history:

• arabian astrology
• arabic astrology (preferred)
• arab astrology

So it seems to me that all three of these terms are correct. The name refers to the language the astrologic items were published at that time - and it was the arabian one, due to Islam religion. One important centre of arabian/ arabic/ arab astrology was Spain, at that time occupied by the Moors. --Astro-rolf 13:24, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia: [1] - I looked there for information on the statement "Arabian astrologers were the first to develop a complete house system."