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Abu Hanifa Dinawari

815 - 896

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Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd Dīnawarī (Arabic: ابوحنيفه دينوری; died 895) was an Islamic Golden Age polymath: astronomer, agriculturist, botanist, metallurgist, geographer, mathematician, and historian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Hanifa Dinawari has received more than 95,434 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Abu Hanifa Dinawari is the 67th most popular astronomer (up from 72nd in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Iran (up from 126th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Iranian Astronomer.

Abu Hanifa Dinawari is most famous for his work on the "Kitab al-Aghani" (The Book of Songs).

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Abu Hanifa Dinawari ranks 67 out of 644. Before him are Johann Franz Encke, Simon Marius, Asaph Hall, Pierre Méchain, Albert Marth, and Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. After him are Arthur B. McDonald, Eugene Merle Shoemaker, John Flamsteed, Jacques Cassini, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, and Antonio Abetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 815, Abu Hanifa Dinawari ranks 1. After him are Theodora, Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Dawud al-Zahiri, and Pepin, Count of Vermandois. Among people deceased in 896, Abu Hanifa Dinawari ranks 4. Before him are Pope Formosus, Photios I of Constantinople, and Pope Boniface VI. After him are Hastein, Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, and Ermengard of Italy.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abu Hanifa Dinawari ranks 115 out of 631. Before him are Demetrius II Nicator (-161), Qazi Muhammad (1893), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Yazdegerd II (500), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), and Mohammad Shah Qajar (1808). After him are Haji Bektash Veli (1209), Bardiya (-580), Karim Khan Zand (1705), Narges Mohammadi (1972), Arses of Persia (-360), and Mehran Karimi Nasseri (1942).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Iran

Among astronomers born in Iran, Abu Hanifa Dinawari ranks 4. Before him are Ulugh Beg (1394), Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903), and Jamshīd al-Kāshī (1380). After him are Alenush Terian (1921).

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