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Ali ibn al-Athir

1160 - 1233

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Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, better known as ʿAlī ʿIzz ad-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī (Arabic: علي عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري; 1160–1233) was a Hadith expert, historian, and biographer who wrote in Arabic and was from the Ibn Athir family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ali ibn al-Athir has received more than 301,043 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Ali ibn al-Athir is the 39th most popular historian (up from 44th in 2019), the 202nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 244th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Turkish Historian.

Ali ibn al-Athir was a historian of the Islamic world. He is most famous for his "Kitab al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh" (The Complete History), which is an important source for the early history of the Crusades.

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  • 66.74

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ali ibn al-Athir ranks 39 out of 561. Before him are Edward Gibbon, Ibn Ishaq, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Eric Hobsbawm, Jacques Le Goff, and Adam of Bremen. After him are Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani, Lucien Febvre, Samuel von Pufendorf, Erwin Panofsky, Euhemerus, and François Guizot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1160, Ali ibn al-Athir ranks 4. Before him are Pope Innocent III, Pope Gregory IX, and Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. After him are Muhammad of Ghor, Pérotin, Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, Alys of France, Countess of Vexin, Arnaud Amalric, Hartmann von Aue, Dulce of Aragon, and Ma Yuan. Among people deceased in 1233, Ali ibn al-Athir ranks 1. After him are Thomas, Count of Savoy, Ferdinand, Count of Flanders, Bohemond IV of Antioch, Yolanda of Courtenay, and Helena of Denmark.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Ali ibn al-Athir ranks 202 out of 1,347. Before him are Cemal Gürsel (1895), Ahmet Necdet Sezer (1941), Arcesilaus (-315), Romanos II (938), Xenocrates (-396), and Cleanthes (-330). After him are Saint Timothy (17), Nikephoros III Botaneiates (1002), Sultan Cem (1459), Theophanu (960), Michael Psellos (1018), and Elia Kazan (1909).

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Among HISTORIANS In Türkiye

Among historians born in Türkiye, Ali ibn al-Athir ranks 5. Before him are Herodotus (-484), Hecataeus of Miletus (-550), Cassius Dio (155), and Arrian (89). After him are Socrates of Constantinople (380), Libanius (314), Ephorus (-400), Eunapius (349), Agatharchides (-208), Michael Attaleiates (1021), and Doukas (1400).

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