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Al-Mutanabbi

915 - 965

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Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī al-Kindī (c. 915 – 965 AD), commonly known as Al-Mutanabbi (Arabic: المتنبّي), was a famous Abbasid-era Arabian poet at the court of the Hamdanid emir Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo, and for whom he composed 300 folios of poetry. His poetic style earned him great popularity in his time and many of his poems are not only still widely read in today's Arab world but are considered to be proverbial. He started writing poetry when he was nine years old. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Mutanabbi has received more than 474,210 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Al-Mutanabbi is the 958th most popular writer (up from 1,034th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 93rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Iraqi Writer.

Al-Mutanabbi is most famous for his poetry. He is considered one of the best poets in the Arab world.

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  • 470k

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  • 67.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Al-Mutanabbi ranks 958 out of 7,302. Before him are Johannes Tauler, Patrick White, Sin Saimdang, Alfred Kubin, George Steiner, and Panait Istrati. After him are Ivan Gundulić, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Sulpicius Severus, Chiara Lubich, Percy Fawcett, and Victorien Sardou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 915, Al-Mutanabbi ranks 2. Before him is Al-Hakam II. After him are Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Burchard III, Duke of Swabia, Conrad I, Duke of Swabia, and Leo Phokas the Younger. Among people deceased in 965, Al-Mutanabbi ranks 3. Before him are Pope Benedict V, and Pope Leo VIII. After him are Bruno the Great, Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, Hedwig of Saxony, Ibn Hibban, Gero, Otto, Duke of Burgundy, and Joseph Bringas.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Al-Mutanabbi ranks 90 out of 384. Before him are Shamshi-Adad I (-1860), Ibn al-Jawzi (1116), Hormizd IV (540), Adad-nirari I (-1400), Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (1941), and Ahmad ibn Tulun (835). After him are Nouri al-Maliki (1950), Ibn Qutaybah (828), Lugal-zage-si (-2360), Adad-nirari II (-1000), Al-Mu'tazz (847), and Sumu-abum (-2000).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Al-Mutanabbi ranks 8. Before him are Al-Masudi (896), Fuzûlî (1494), Ahmad ibn Fadlan (900), Enheduanna (-2300), Berossus (-400), and Ibn al-Jawzi (1116). After him are Ibn Sirin (653), Ibn Khallikan (1211), Ibn al-Nadim (1000), Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (718), Al-Hariri of Basra (1054), and Al-Sharif al-Radi (970).

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