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Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf

750 - 808

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Abu al-Fadl Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (Arabic: عباس بن الأحنف) (750 in Basra-809), was an Arab Abbasid poet from the tribe of Banu Hanifa. His work consists solely of love poems (ghazal). It is "primarily concerned with the hopelessness of love, and the personae in his compositions seems resigned to a relationship of deprivation". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf has received more than 37,000 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf is the 3,984th most popular writer (up from 4,023rd in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 265th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Iraqi Writer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 2.84

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf ranks 3,984 out of 5,755. Before him are Florbela Espanca, Alexander McCall Smith, William Wharton, Itzik Feffer, Antonio Fogazzaro, and Adam Bohorič. After him are Ludwig Anzengruber, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Jacqueline de Romilly, Janko Matúška, Jacob of Edessa, and Uwe Timm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 750, Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf ranks 18. Before him are Giovanni I Participazio, Cuthred of Wessex, Æthelheard of Wessex, Antony I of Constantinople, Sigeberht of Wessex, and Theodore Abu Qurrah. After him are Eanred of Northumbria, Alhred of Northumbria, and Alboin of Spoleto. Among people deceased in 808, Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf ranks 1. After him is Ælfwald II of Northumbria.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf ranks 278 out of 338. Before him are Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (-1500), Dinkha IV (1935), Naziha al-Dulaimi (1923), Asharid-apal-Ekur (-1200), Yitzhak Mordechai (1944), and Ali Akbar Salehi (1949). After him are En-anna-tum I (-2500), Puzur-Ashur III (-1600), Ashur-nirari IV (-1100), Louis Raphaël I Sako (1948), Ashur-resh-ishi II (-1100), and Raghad Hussein (1968).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf ranks 24. Before him are Al-Asmaʿi (740), Nazik Al-Malaika (1923), Abu Firas al-Hamdani (932), Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī (923), Abdullah Goran (1904), and Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz (861). After him are Karim Findi (1946) and Muhsin al-Ramli (1967).

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