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  "ar": "ماشاء الله",
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  "ar": "ماشاء الله اليهودي من أفاضل المنجمين الأقدمين عند ابن النديم، وكان أبو علي الخياط المنجم تلميذه {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 385-386}.",
  "en": "Masha'allah — the Jewish astrologer, master of the court astrologers {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim}"
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   "note": "Date-enrichment pass; source: EI2"
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   "edtf": "815~",
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   "note": "Date-enrichment pass; source: EI2"
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   "edtf": "815~",
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   "note": "Date-enrichment pass; source: EI2"
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   "source": "ابن النديم، الفهرست",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "ماشاء الله اليهودي، من أفاضل المنجمين الأقدمين عند ابن النديم، وكان أبو علي الخياط المنجم تلميذه. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 385-386}"
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    "lang": "ar",
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   },
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Masha'Allah the Jew, among the most excellent of the early astrologers in Ibn al-Nadim's account; Abu Ali al-Khayyat the astrologer was his pupil. {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 385-386}"
    }
   ],
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    "id": "person/mashaallah",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
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     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), batch 21"
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   },
   "updated": "2026-11-03"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ماشاءاللہ یہودی، ابن ندیم کے نزدیک قدیم منجمین کے افاضل میں سے؛ ابو علی خیاط منجم اس کا شاگرد تھا۔ {cite:fihrist-ibn-al-nadim p. 385-386}"
    }
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    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), batch 21"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-11-03"
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  "person/abu-asim-al-nabil",
  "person/abu-ubayda-mammar",
  "person/al-dahhak-ibn-makhlad-al-naysaburi",
  "person/anas-ibn-iyad",
  "person/husayn-ibn-ali-al-jufi",
  "person/jabir-ibn-hayyan",
  "person/muhammad-ibn-abd-allah-ibn-al-muthanna",
  "person/nadr-ibn-shumayl",
  "person/nasr-ibn-muzahim",
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   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Rendered Masha'allah's letter on eclipses into Latin.",
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   "to": "place/basra",
   "type": "lived_in",
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   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Masha'Allah ibn Athari, astrologer of Basra, per the record's own summary.",
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  "event/abu-dawud-muwaffaq-basra-272",
  "event/al-ashari-composes-works-basra",
  "event/al-ashari-renounces-mutazila-300",
  "event/al-ashari-studies-jubbai-basra",
  "event/asawira-basra-settlement"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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