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Mashaallah

ماشاء الله

740~ – 815~

Basra

Masha'allah — the Jewish astrologer, master of the court astrologers 1

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Life in time

700725750775800825850 c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Ala al-Sadafi · Abu 'Asim al-Nabil · Abu 'Ubayda Ma'mar ibn al-Muthanna · Al-Dahhak ibn Makhlad · Anas ibn Iyad

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Basra

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

Overview

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. 2

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People and things also explored

Great Mosque of Basra· Qasr Qubadh / the Hajjaj palace at Basra· Abu Dawud's first journey: Baghdad, Basra and Mecca, 220/835· Al-Muwaffaq's three wishes: Abu Dawud settles at Basra, c. 272/885· Al-Ash'ari composes Maqalat al-Islamiyyin and his refutations of the Mu'tazila· Al-Ash'ari publicly renounces Mu'tazilism in the Great Mosque of Basra, 300/912-13· Al-Ash'ari, al-Jubba'i's pupil at Basra, and the three brothers debate· The Asawira's Settlement at Basra

Sources

  1. al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
  2. al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim , p. 385-386
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Great Mosque of Basra

Basra's congregational mosque; Utba ibn Ghazwan built it of reeds in 14 AH — its layout claimed for himself, Nafi' ibn al-Adhra' al-Bahzi, Nafi' ibn al-Harith, and al-Aswad ibn Sari' who first judged in it — Abu Musa rebuilt it in mud-brick with mushab roofing, then Ziyad enlarged and rebuilt it in fired brick and gypsum with teak roofing, a stone minaret, the first maqsura, and columns hauled from Ahwaz's mountain by al-Hajjaj ibn Utayk and his son; he had pebbles strewn lest hand-dusting pass for sunnah, and the enforcers' harshness bred the saying 'lovely the governorship, even over stones'. Al-Mahdi bought the houses of Nafi' ibn al-Harith, Ubaydallah ibn Abi Bakra and Rabi'a ibn Kallada into it, and the governor's palace was taken in under al-Rashid.