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Mashallah ibn Athari, a Common card
Māshāʾallāh ibn Atharī, known as Mashallah, was an 8th-century Persian Jewish astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 46
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,900
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Originally from Khorasan, he lived in Basra 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. the science of judgments of the stars".
- Mashallah served as a court astrologer for the Abbasid caliphate and wrote works on astrology in Arabic.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mashallah ibn Athari article was read about 7,900 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 46: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mashallah ibn Athari (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Conrad Heingartner (Main), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
