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Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz

861 - 908

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Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz (Arabic: عبد الله بن المعتز, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Muʿtazz; 861 – 29 December 908) was the son of the caliph al-Mu'tazz and a political figure, but is better known as a leading Arabic poet and the author of the Kitab al-Badi, an early study of Arabic forms of poetry. This work is considered one of the earliest works in Arabic literary theory and literary criticism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz has received more than 64,963 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz is the 3,406th most popular writer (up from 3,492nd in 2019), the 275th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 263rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Iraqi Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz ranks 3,406 out of 7,302. Before him are Victor Pelevin, Georgi Sava Rakovski, John Henry Mackay, Pierre Bec, Spencer Johnson, and Max Aub. After him are Augusto Genina, Mikhail Koltsov, Jiří Wolker, Grace Elliott, Lev Nussimbaum, and David Eddings.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 861, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 908, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz ranks 4. Before him are Emperor Ai of Tang, Al-Muktafi, and Li Keyong. After him are Remigius of Auxerre, and Asser.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz ranks 275 out of 384. Before him are Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (1976), Kadashman-Enlil I (-1400), Ibn Butlan (1001), Yitzhak Mordechai (1944), Abdullah Goran (1904), and Ashur-bel-kala (-1200). After him are Shamshi-Adad IV (-1100), Abu Firas al-Hamdani (932), Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī (923), Mahmud Nedim Pasha (1818), Al-Mundhir III ibn al-Nu'man (500), and Ahmed Chalabi (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz ranks 22. Before him are Aphrahat (280), Abu-l-'Atahiya (748), Al-Asmaʿi (740), Nazik Al-Malaika (1923), Karim Findi (1946), and Abdullah Goran (1904). After him are Abu Firas al-Hamdani (932), Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī (923), Ishaq ibn Hunayn (830), Jacob of Serugh (451), Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750), and Ahmet Haşim (1887).

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