阿布·馬謝爾·巴爾基(أبو معشر جعفر بن محمد بن عمر البلخي,787年8月10日—886年3月9日)是一名早期波斯[4][5][6]穆斯林占星家,被認為是巴格達阿拔斯王朝宮廷中最偉大的占星家。雖然他不是一個主要的創新者,但他培訓占星家的實用手冊深刻地影響了穆斯林的思想史,並透過翻譯影響西歐和拜占庭的思想史。
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The Arrival of the Pagan Philosophers in the North:A Twelfth Century Florilegium in Edinburgh University Library, Charles Burnett, Knowledge, Discipline and Power in the Middle Ages, ed. Joseph Canning, Edmund J. King, Martial Staub, (Brill, 2011), 83;"...prolific writer Abu Ma'shar Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Balkhi, who was born in Khurasan in 787 A.D. and died in Wasit in Iraq in 886..."
Frye, R.N. (編). The Cambridge history of Iran, Volume 4 Repr. London: Cambridge U.P. 1975: 584. ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6. We can single out for brief consideration only two of the many Persians whose contributions were of great importance in the development of Islamic sciences in those days. Abu Ma『shar al-Balkhi (d. 272/886), who came from eastern Iran, was a rather famous astrologer and astronomer.
Hockey, Thomas. Biographical encyclopedia of astronomers. New York: Springer. 2014: 91. ISBN 9781441999184. The introduction of Aristotelian material was accompanied by the translation of major astrological texts, particularly Claudius Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (1138), the pseudo-Ptolemaic Centiloquium (1136), and the Maius Introductorium (1140), the major introduction to astrology composed by the Persian astrologer Abu Ma『shar.