WRITER

Ahmad ibn Mājid

1432 - 1500

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Aḥmad ibn Mājid (Arabic: أحمد بن ماجد), also known as the "Arab Admiral" (أمير البحر العربي, ʿAmīr al-Baḥr al-ʿArabī) and the "Lion of the Sea", was an Arab navigator and cartographer born c. 1432 in Julfar, the present-day Ras Al Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. He was raised in a family famous for seafaring; at the age of seventeen he was able to navigate ships. The exact date is not known, but Ibn Mājid probably died around 1500. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad ibn Mājid has received more than 286,085 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Ahmad ibn Mājid is the 1,574th most popular writer (up from 1,609th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from United Arab Emirates (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Emirati Writer.

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  • 290k

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  • 63.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmad ibn Mājid ranks 1,574 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean-François Marmontel, Jonas Lie, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sister Nivedita, Gustav Landauer, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer. After him are Alistair MacLean, Eino Leino, Ruth Rendell, Jean Chapelain, Alasdair Gray, and Dean Koontz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1432, Ahmad ibn Mājid ranks 7. Before him are Mehmed the Conqueror, Pope Innocent VIII, Afonso V of Portugal, Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia, Isabel of Coimbra, and Alvise Cadamosto. After him are Bartolomeo Vivarini, Luigi Pulci, Hōjō Sōun, and Christina Abrahamsdotter. Among people deceased in 1500, Ahmad ibn Mājid ranks 7. Before him are Bartolomeu Dias, Diogo Dias, Albert III, Duke of Saxony, Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado, Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal, and Gil Eanes. After him are Doukas, Maria of Serbia, Queen of Bosnia, Fernão do Pó, John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne, Bartolomé Bermejo, and Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset.

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In United Arab Emirates

Among people born in United Arab Emirates, Ahmad ibn Mājid ranks 7 out of 49. Before him are Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (1948), Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1918), Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (1949), Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum (1943), Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (1961), and Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum (1912). After him are Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi (1939), Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra (632), Sarla Thakral (1914), Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi III (1931), Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (1970), and Khaldoon Al Mubarak (1975).

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Among WRITERS In United Arab Emirates

Among writers born in United Arab Emirates, Ahmad ibn Mājid ranks 1. 

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