# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abu-ma-shar-al-balkhi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:31:33.415Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abu-ma-shar-al-balkhi"
name: "Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi"
slug: "abu-ma-shar-al-balkhi"
description: "Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi, Latinized as Albumasar, was an early Persian Muslim astrologer, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the Abbasid court in Baghdad. While he was not a major innovator, his practical manuals for training astrologers profoundly influenced Muslim intellectual history and, through translations, that of western Europe and Byzantium."
tagline: "Persian astrologer and philosopher (787–886)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albumasar_(Nikolaikirche_Stralsund).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "0787-08-10"
deathDate: "886"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.4579549940781682
  historical:           20.42869733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Albuxar de Bactro"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump