Ibn al-Mazyar
ابن المازيار
Abu Ma'shar's pupil, author of the Muntakhab of the Kitab al-Uluf on the great buildings raised each millennium 1.
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Ibn al-Mazyar, a pupil of Abu Ma'shar the astrologer. Al-Mas'udi attributes to him the book al-Muntakhab min Kitab al-Alluf (Selections from the Book of Thousands), in which he mentions the great structures that come about every thousand years. 1
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- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 556
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