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HISTORIAN

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 109,081 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani is the 105th most popular historian (down from 103rd in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from Iran (down from 158th in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Historian.

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110k
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57.89
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
29
Languages Editions (L)
3.67
Effective Languages (L*)
3.45
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani ranks 105 out of 339. Before him are Reinhart Koselleck, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Christoph Cellarius, Arnold Hauser, George Kedrenos, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. After him are Hayden White, Eunapius, Cangjie, Vasily Bartold, Leo the Deacon, and Henry Thomas Buckle.

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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 Sayf al-Dawla, Emperor Murakami, Li Cheng, and Dub, King of Scotland.