The Great Star with a Ray, in the Year Six and Ninety

الكوكب العظيم ذو الشعاع سنة ست وتسعين

c. February 1006 CE · Sha'ban 396 AH

A great star resembling Venus in size and brightness rose to the left of the qibla, shimmering, with a ray on the ground like moonlight, on the night of Friday at the beginning of Sha'ban in the year six and ninety; it stayed until mid-Dhu al-Qa'da, then set 1.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
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Levant & Iraq
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990100010101020 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Sources

  1. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.7 p.231
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