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The comet of 373

مذنب 373هـ

c. 19 July 983 CE · 16 Safar 373 AH

On the night of Wednesday 16 Safar 373 a tailed star appeared from Aquarius in the west toward Capricorn, rising into the zodiac; the people of Baghdad whistled and pointed at it, and it stayed past dawn 1.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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9709809901000 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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On the night of Wednesday 16 Safar 373 a tailed star appeared from Aquarius in the west toward Capricorn, climbing to the ecliptic; the people of Baghdad would whistle at it saying "look at it" — and it remained past the rising of dawn 1.

Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.131
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