718 - 790
Abu ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn Tammām al-Farāhīdī al-Azdī al-Yaḥmadī (Arabic: أبو عبد الرحمن الخليل بن أحمد بن عمرو بن تمام الفراهيدي الأزدي اليحمدي; 718 – 786 CE), known as al-Farāhīdī, or al-Khalīl, was an Arab philologist, lexicographer and leading grammarian of Basra based on Iraq. He made the first dictionary of the Arabic language – and the oldest extant dictionary – Kitab al-'Ayn (Arabic: كتاب العين "The Source") – introduced the now standard harakat (vowel marks in Arabic script) system, and was instrumental in the early development of ʿArūḍ (study of prosody), musicology and poetic metre. His linguistic theories influenced the development of Persian, Turkish, Kurdish and Urdu prosody. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi has received more than 224,661 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi is the 1,455th most popular writer (down from 1,439th in 2019), the 138th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 121st in 2019) and the 12th most popular Iraqi Writer.
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Among writers, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 1,455 out of 5,755. Before him are César Vallejo, Jules Laforgue, Salvian, Fulcher of Chartres, J. G. Ballard, and Vasil Bykaŭ. After him are Quintus Smyrnaeus, Alexander Radishchev, Philip José Farmer, Ruy González de Clavijo, José Mauro de Vasconcelos, and Fritz Gerlich.
1892 - 1938
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 1,449
1860 - 1887
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 1,450
405 - 451
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,451
1059 - 1127
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 1,452
1930 - 2009
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,453
1924 - 2003
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,454
718 - 790
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,455
400 - 400
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 1,456
1749 - 1802
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 1,457
1918 - 2009
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 1,458
1400 - 1412
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 1,459
1920 - 1984
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 1,460
1883 - 1934
HPI: 57.90
Rank: 1,461
Among people born in 718, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 4. Before him are Abu Muslim, Constantine V, and Empress Kōken. After him are Lupus II of Gascony and Ōtomo no Yakamochi. Among people deceased in 790, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 1.
718 - 755
HPI: 69.42
Rank: 1
718 - 775
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 2
718 - 770
HPI: 59.23
Rank: 3
718 - 790
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 4
718 - 778
HPI: 54.51
Rank: 5
718 - 785
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 6
Among people born in Iraq, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 138 out of 338. Before him are Al-Mu'tazz (847), Al-Mawardi (974), Ovadia Yosef (1920), Adil Abdul-Mahdi (1942), Alulim (null), and Ishbi-Erra (-2100). After him are Manishtushu (null), Ar-Radi (909), Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1935), Nuri al-Said (1888), At-Ta'i (932), and Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf (1940).
847 - 869
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 132
974 - 1058
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 133
1920 - 2013
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 134
1942 - Present
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 135
HPI: 58.05
Rank: 136
2100 BC - 2060 BC
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 137
718 - 790
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 138
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 139
909 - 940
HPI: 57.83
Rank: 140
1935 - 2010
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 141
1888 - 1958
HPI: 57.75
Rank: 142
932 - 1003
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 143
1940 - Present
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 144
Among writers born in Iraq, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ranks 12. Before him are Berossus (-400), Ibn al-Jawzi (1116), Al-Mutanabbi (915), Ibn Sirin (653), Ibn al-Nadim (1000), and Ibn Khallikan (1211). After him are Al-Hariri of Basra (1054), Aphrahat (280), Al-Sharif al-Radi (970), Abu-l-'Atahiya (748), Al-Farazdaq (641), and Al-Asmaʿi (740).
400 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 63.81
Rank: 6
1116 - 1200
HPI: 62.32
Rank: 7
915 - 965
HPI: 60.73
Rank: 8
653 - 729
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 9
1000 - 995
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 10
1211 - 1282
HPI: 58.58
Rank: 11
718 - 790
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 12
1054 - 1122
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 13
280 - 346
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 14
970 - 1015
HPI: 53.77
Rank: 15
748 - 826
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 16
641 - 728
HPI: 53.01
Rank: 17
740 - 828
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 18