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Mashallah ibn Athari

740 - 815

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Māshāʾallāh ibn Atharī (Arabic: ما شاء الله إبن أثري; c. 740 – 815), known as Mashallah, was an 8th century Persian Jewish astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician. Originally from Khorasan, he lived in Basra (in present day Iraq) during the reigns of the Abbasid caliphs al-Manṣūr and al-Ma’mūn, and was among those who introduced astrology and astronomy to Baghdad. The bibliographer ibn al-Nadim described Mashallah "as virtuous and in his time a leader in the science of jurisprudence, i.e. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mashallah ibn Athari has received more than 120,253 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mashallah ibn Athari is the 278th most popular astronomer (down from 173rd in 2019), the 248th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 187th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iraqi Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Mashallah ibn Athari ranks 278 out of 531Before him are Lewis Boss, Charles Wolf, Grigory Neujmin, Robert T. A. Innes, Maria Clara Eimmart, and Karl Christian Bruhns. After him are Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Liisi Oterma, Heikki A. Alikoski, John Machin, and Frank Watson Dyson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 740, Mashallah ibn Athari ranks 7Before him are Aurelius of Asturias, Paulinus II of Aquileia, Angilbert, Adalgis, Al-Asmaʿi, and Kamalaśīla. After him is Vineh of Bulgaria. Among people deceased in 815, Mashallah ibn Athari ranks 2Before him is Jabir ibn Hayyan.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Mashallah ibn Athari ranks 248 out of 338Before him are Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (1976), Muqtada al-Sadr (1974), Abu Sulayman Sijistani (932), Kadashman-Enlil I (-1400), Nazik Al-Malaika (1923), and Emmanuel III Delly (1927). After him are Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun (864), Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz (1913), Awad Hamed al-Bandar (1945), Ashur-nadin-apli (-1300), Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī (null), and Abu Firas al-Hamdani (932).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Iraq

Among astronomers born in Iraq, Mashallah ibn Athari ranks 2Before him are Seleucus of Seleucia (-190).