Naubakht

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nobakht Ahvazi (Persian: نوبخت اهوازى, also transliterated 'Naubakht') and his sons were astrologers from Ahvaz (in the present-day Khuzestan Province of Iran).

Nobakht was particularly famous for having led a group of astrologers who picked an auspicious electional chart for the founding of Baghdad. His family also helped design the city. Originally Zoroastrians, Nobakht and his sons were also employed as Pahlavi translators of the Abbasid court.

[edit] Sources

• The Golden Age of Persia, by Richard Nelson Frye, p. 163.
• Khandan-i Naubakhti, by Abbas Iqbal, Tehran, 1933, pp 2-3 & 13.
• Islamic Science and Engineering, by Donald Hill, p. 10.