 In essence, Avicenna did not refute astrology, but denied man's limited capacity to be able to know the precise effects of the stars on the sublunar matter.With that, he did not refute the essential dogma of astrology, but only refuted our ability to fully understand it.Another Damascene scientist Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya (1292–1350), in his "Miftah Dar al-Sa'adah", used empirical arguments in astronomy in order to refute the judicial practice of astrology which is most closely aligned to divination.