Queen Buran, Astrologer in 9th Century Baghdad

The Astrology Podcast

Chris Brennan

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Religion

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 191 minutes

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Episode 295 features an interview with Ali A Olomi about the 9th century Queen Buran, who is the first woman we know of by name that practiced astrology. Previously in episode 86 I discussed historical references to women practicing astrology as early as the 1st century CE, and discussed the 5th century philosopher Hypatia as […]

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the Astrology podcast.
0:04.1	Today is Wednesday, March 10, 2021, starting at 907 AM in Denver, Colorado.
0:10.1	And this is the 295th episode of the show.
0:13.3	Today I'm going to be talking with Ali Alumi about the 9th century queen, baron, who was
0:21.0	an astrologer, who practiced astrology, and is one of the earliest women that we know
0:25.1	of whose name is recorded in history to have practiced astrology.
0:30.6	So hey, Ali, how's it going?
0:32.4	Hello, thanks for having me.
0:33.8	I'm very excited to be here.
0:35.4	Yeah, thanks a lot for coming on.
0:37.0	I've been following you on Twitter for a while now and really appreciating your work.
0:41.2	So you are a scholar and a historian of the Middle East and Islam, and you focus in particular
0:47.8	on esotericism, on politics, and on astrology and other related things, right?
0:55.4	Yeah.
0:56.4	I always have to apologize whenever someone says that they follow me on Twitter.
0:59.2	I'm like, oh, I'm so sorry.
1:00.2	Please don't do that.
1:01.4	Well, there's, I think there's a lot now.
1:03.4	There's like 50,000 people you have to apologize to, so I do have some work for you.
1:07.7	Those poor, poor people.
1:09.2	Yeah.
1:10.2	Well, I've appreciated your threads.
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