The Most Famous
GEOGRAPHERS from Iran
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Geographers. The pantheon dataset contains 86 Geographers, 2 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 11th most number of Geographers behind Italy, and Netherlands.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iranian Geographers of all time. This list of famous Iranian Geographers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203 - 1283)
With an HPI of 60.18, Zakariya al-Qazwini is the most famous Iranian Geographer. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Zakariyya' al-Qazwini (full name: Abū Yaḥyā Zakariyyāʾ ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd al-Qazwīnī, Arabic: أبو يحيى زكرياء بن محمد بن محمود القزويني), also known as Qazvini (Persian: قزوینی), (born c. 1203 in Qazvin, Iran, and died 1283), was a cosmographer and geographer. He belonged to a family of jurists originally descended from Anas bin Malik (a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad) which had been well established in Qazvin long before al-Qazwini was born. His most famous work is the ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāʾib al-mawjūdāt (lit. 'Wonders of the Creation and Unique [phenomena] of the Existence'), a seminal work in cosmography. He is also the author of the geographical dictionary Āthār al-bilād wa-akhbār al-ʿibād (lit. 'Monuments of the Lands and Historical Traditions about Their Peoples').
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Iranian geographers born between 1203 and 1203. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Iranian geographers include Zakariya al-Qazwini.
