Learn about itLearn onlyHistorical practice
This page describes the practice. There is deliberately no automated reading for it — see the notes below.
Background
Sasanian Persian astrology combined Babylonian, Indian and Greek knowledge, and astrology was widely studied in the medieval Islamic world. This tradition later passed into Europe and into Indian Tajika astrology.
How it works
It used horoscopic charts, annual charts and calculated points known as lots or parts.
At a glance
- Also called
- Islamic astrology, Medieval Islamic astrology, Ilm al-nujum
- Traditions
- Persian, Arabic, Islamic
- Regions
- Middle East & Persia
- You need
- Nothing
- Price
- Free