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Al-Biruni, an Uncommon card
Abu Reyhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni, known as Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian polymath of the Islamic Golden Age.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Ranked #1,562 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy and the natural sciences, he also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist and linguist, and has been described as the first anthropologist and a founding figure in comparative religion, geodesy and Indology.
- Born in Kath in Khwarazm, al-Biruni spent the first twenty-five years of his life there before moving, after the fall of the Afrighids in 995, between the courts of Bukhara, Tabaristan and Gurganj.
- Around 1000 he completed his first major work, al-Āthār al-bāqiya ʿan al-qurūn al-khāliya, on historical and scientific chronology.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Al-Biruni article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Al-Biruni (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was Romanm at Slovenian Wikipedia ., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.




