The Most Famous
WRITERS from United Arab Emirates
This page contains a list of the greatest Emirati Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 5,755 Writers, 1 of which were born in United Arab Emirates. This makes United Arab Emirates the birth place of the 128th most number of Writers behind Luxembourg and El Salvador.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Emirati Writers of all time. This list of famous Emirati Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ahmad ibn Mājid (1432 - 1500)
With an HPI of 56.90, Ahmad ibn Mājid is the most famous Emirati Writer. His biography has been translated into 26 different languages on wikipedia.
Aḥmad ibn Mājid (Arabic: أحمد بن ماجد), also known as the "Arab Admiral" (أمير البحر العربي, ʿAmīr al-Baḥr al-ʿArabī) and the "Lion of the Sea", was an Arab navigator and cartographer born c. 1432 in Julfar, the present-day Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. He was raised in a family famous for seafaring; at the age of seventeen he was able to navigate ships. The exact date is not known, but Ibn Mājid probably died around 1500. Although long identified in the West as the navigator who helped Vasco da Gama find his way from Africa to India, contemporary research has shown Ibn Mājid is unlikely even to have met Da Gama. Ibn Mājid was the author of nearly forty works of poetry and prose.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 1432 and 1432. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased writers include Ahmad ibn Mājid.
