WRITER

Ahmad ibn Arabshah

1389 - 1450

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Abu Muhammad Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim also known as Muhammad ibn Arabshah (Arabic: ابن عَرَبْشَاه; 1389–1450), was an Arab writer and traveller who lived under the reign of Timur (1370–1405).He was born and grew up in Damascus. Later when Timur invaded Syria, he moved to Samarkand and later to Transoxiana. He later moved to Edirne and worked in the court of Sultan Mehmed I translating Arabic books to Turkish and Persian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad ibn Arabshah has received more than 40,737 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ahmad ibn Arabshah is the 2,041st most popular writer (down from 1,902nd in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Syria (down from 82nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Syrian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 41k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

ʻAjāyb al-maqdūr fī akhbār Taymūr
Turks, Biography, Kings and rulers
[Edited, with a Latin preface, by J. Golius.].
1636
Fākihat al-khulafāʼ wa-mufākahat al-ẓurafāʼ
1997
ʻAjāʼib al-maqdūr fī akhbār Tīmūr
Early works to 1800, Kings and rulers, Turkic peoples
1873
'Aja'ib al-maqdur fi akhbar Taymur
1882
Fākihat al-khulafāʾ wa-mufākahat al-ẓurafāʾ
Arabic Fables, Fables, Arabic
1832
ʻAjāʼib al-maqdūr fī nawāʼib Taymūr
Early works to 1800, Kings and rulers, Biography
1979

Page views of Ahmad ibn Arabshahs by language

Over the past year Ahmad ibn Arabshah has had the most page views in the with 6,230 views, followed by Arabic (3,740), and Persian (3,349). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (110.43%), Swedish (42.31%), and Uzbek (38.07%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmad ibn Arabshah ranks 2,041 out of 7,302. Before him are Menander Protector, Carl Zuckmayer, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Annette Kellermann, Fyodor Sologub, and Tom Wolfe. After him are Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Mahsati, Maria Konopnicka, Dora d'Istria, and Joachim Neander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1389, Ahmad ibn Arabshah ranks 6. Before him are Cosimo de' Medici, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Isabella of Valois, John V, Duke of Brittany, and Philip II, Count of Nevers. After him are Antoninus of Florence, and Zbigniew Oleśnicki. Among people deceased in 1450, Ahmad ibn Arabshah ranks 10. Before him are Abdal-Latif Mirza, Stefano di Giovanni, Basil Valentine, Francis I, Duke of Brittany, Henry XVI, Duke of Bavaria, and Leonello d'Este. After him are Nuno Gonçalves, Bengt Jönsson, Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg-Urach, Nils Jönsson, Catherine Karlsdotter, and William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Ahmad ibn Arabshah ranks 92 out of 210. Before him are Evagrius Scholasticus (536), Dündar Ali Osman (1930), Adib Shishakli (1909), Numenius of Apamea (200), Cassius Longinus (213), and Alciphron (200). After him are Salih Muslim (1951), Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik (685), Tiridates II of Parthia (-100), John Moschus (550), Husni al-Za'im (1897), and Ahmad al-Khatib (1933).

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Among WRITERS In Syria

Among writers born in Syria, Ahmad ibn Arabshah ranks 13. Before him are Khaled al-Asaad (1932), Abu Tammam (788), Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), Jurji Zaydan (1861), Cassius Longinus (213), and Alciphron (200). After him are John Moschus (550), Elia Abu Madi (1890), Maryana Marrash (1848), Ghada al-Samman (1942), Buhturi (819), and Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (1855).

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