[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › People › Abu Maʿshar al-Balkhi # Abu Maʿshar al-Balkhi (Abū Maʿshar al-Balkhī) Astrologer; his lost Kitāb al-Ulūf built on Indian world-cycles. ## Works (4) - [كتاب الالوف (كتاب الألوف)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.hisab.abu-mashar-uluf) — Arabic; 840–886 CE; lost - [المدخل الكبير الى علم احكام النجوم (المدخل الكبير إلى علم أحكام النجوم)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.hisab.abu-mashar-mudkhal) — Arabic; 848 CE; catalogued, text not yet digitised - [كتاب الملل والدول](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.hisab.abu-mashar-milal) — Arabic; 850–886 CE; catalogued, text not yet digitised - [Abū Maʿshar, Great Introduction (Latin) (Introductorium maius in astronomiam)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.medieval.science.introductorium-maius) — Latin; 1133–1140 CE; catalogued, text not yet digitised --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/person/abu-mashar](https://indike.org/pramana/person/abu-mashar) · Pramāṇa