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Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani

893 - 945

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Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī (Arabic: أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني, 279/280-333/334 A.H.; c. 893 – 947;) was an Arab Muslim geographer, chemist, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer, from the tribe of Banu Hamdan, western 'Amran, Yemen. He was one of the best representatives of Islamic culture during the last period of the Abbasid Caliphate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani has received more than 82,392 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani is the 46th most popular geographer (up from 49th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Yemen (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Yemeni Geographer.

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  • 82k

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  • 54.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani ranks 46 out of 86. Before him are Otto Nordenskjöld, Johann Georg Gmelin, Conrad Malte-Brun, Erich von Drygalski, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, and Marie Tharp. After him are Jan Janssonius, Yi-Fu Tuan, Inō Tadataka, Richard Hartshorne, Giovanni Battista Ramusio, and Arnold Henry Guyot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 893, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani ranks 5. Before him are Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, Louis the Child, William Longsword, and Al-Qa'im.  Among people deceased in 945, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani ranks 4. Before him are Igor of Kiev, Hyejong of Goryeo, and Ki no Tsurayuki. After him is Krešimir I of Croatia.

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In Yemen

Among people born in Yemen, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani ranks 16 out of 35. Before him are Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din (1869), Mukesh Ambani (1957), Muhammad al-Badr (1926), Wahb ibn Munabbih (655), Tawakkol Karman (1979), and Ahmad bin Yahya (1891). After him are Shoshana Damari (1923), Hussein al-Houthi (1960), Ali Nasir Muhammad (1940), Mohammed Basindawa (1935), Abdullah al-Sallal (1917), and Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (1939).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In Yemen

Among geographers born in Yemen, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani ranks 1. 

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