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Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani

897 - 967

Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani

Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Iṣfahānī (Arabic: أبو الفرج الأصفهاني), also known as Abul-Faraj, (full form: Abū al-Faraj ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥaytham al-Umawī al-Iṣfahānī) (897–967CE / 284–356AH) was a writer, historian, genealogist, poet, musicologist and scribe. He was of Arab-Quraysh origin and mainly based in Baghdad. He is best known as the author of Kitab al-Aghani ("The Book of Songs"), which includes information about the earliest attested periods of Arabic music (from the seventh to the ninth centuries) and the lives of poets and musicians from the pre-Islamic period to al-Isfahani's time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani has received more than 119,138 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani is the 93rd most popular historian (up from 105th in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from Iran (up from 167th in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Historian.

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Among historians, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani ranks 93 out of 561. Before him are George Ostrogorsky, Al-Waqidi, Hermann Alexander Diels, Timaeus, Yuval Noah Harari, and George Kedrenos. After him are Vasily Bartold, Tyrannius Rufinus, Shoqan Walikhanov, Christoph Cellarius, Eunapius, and Matrakçı Nasuh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 897, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani ranks 1. After him is Ngô Quyền. Among people deceased in 967, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani ranks 2. Before him is Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia. After him are Emperor Murakami, Sayf al-Dawla, Dub, King of Scotland, and Li Cheng.