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Ahmad ibn Fadlan

900 - 960

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Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāshid ibn Ḥammād, (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد; commonly known as Ahmad ibn Fadlan (or Ibn Foszlan in older European literature), was a 10th-century Arab traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid caliph, al-Muqtadir of Baghdad, to the king of the Volga Bulgars, known as his risāla ("account" or "journal").His account is most notable for providing a detailed description of the Volga Vikings, including eyewitness accounts of life as part of a trade caravan and witnessing a ship burial. He also notably described the lifestyle of the Oghuz Turks while the Khazaria, Cumans, and Pechnegs were still around.Ibn Fadlan's detailed writings have been cited by numerous historians. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad ibn Fadlan has received more than 1,146,427 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Ahmad ibn Fadlan is the 357th most popular writer (up from 613th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 48th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Iraqi Writer.

Ahmad ibn Fadlan is most famous for being a Muslim diplomat and explorer who traveled to the Volga River in 921 AD.

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  • 3.41

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Among writers, Ahmad ibn Fadlan ranks 357 out of 5,755Before him are Max Brod, Nâzım Hikmet, Jacques Prévert, Ahmad Yasawi, Andrzej Sapkowski, and Jean Genet. After him are Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Susan Sontag, Pär Lagerkvist, Alphonse Daudet, Anne Brontë, and Henri Charrière.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 900, Ahmad ibn Fadlan ranks 7Before him are Ivar the Boneless, Oleg of Novgorod, Gorm the Old, Photios I of Constantinople, Halfdan Ragnarsson, and Pope Lando. After him are Pope Benedict VI, Pope Agapetus II, Pope Stephen VIII, Pope Leo VII, Robert the Strong, and Berengar II of Italy. Among people deceased in 960, Ahmad ibn Fadlan ranks 1After him are Časlav, Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, and Fulk II, Count of Anjou.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ahmad ibn Fadlan ranks 35 out of 338Before him are Gudea (-2200), Muhammad al-Mahdi (869), Nabopolassar (-658), Jalal Talabani (1933), Ismail al-Jazari (1136), and Ur-Nammu (-2200). After him are Eber (-2038), Möngke Khan (1209), Antiochus I Soter (-324), Suleyman Shah (1178), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (1971), and Al-Ash'ari (873).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Ahmad ibn Fadlan ranks 4Before him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780), Al-Masudi (896), and Fuzûlî (1494). After him are Enheduanna (-2300), Berossus (-400), Ibn al-Jawzi (1116), Al-Mutanabbi (915), Ibn Sirin (653), Ibn al-Nadim (1000), Ibn Khallikan (1211), and Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (718).