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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 293,202 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ali ibn al-Athir is the 44th most popular historian (up from 49th in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from Turkey (up from 272nd 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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  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ali ibn al-Athir ranks 44 out of 339. Before him are Leonardo Bruni, Lucien Febvre, Samuel von Pufendorf, Aby Warburg, Ernst Gombrich, and Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani. After him are Niketas Choniates, Jared Diamond, François Guizot, Poggio Bracciolini, Tzvetan Todorov, and Callisthenes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1160, Ali ibn al-Athir ranks 5. Before him are Pope Innocent III, Pope Gregory IX, Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem, and Pérotin. After him are Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur, Muhammad of Ghor, Arnaud Amalric, Ma Yuan, Alys of France, Countess of Vexin, Hartmann von Aue, and Dulce of Aragon. Among people deceased in 1233, Ali ibn al-Athir ranks 1. After him are Thomas, Count of Savoy, Bohemond IV of Antioch, Yolanda of Courtenay, and Helena of Denmark.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Ali ibn al-Athir ranks 244 out of 1,301. Before him are Alexios II Komnenos (1169), Alexios V Doukas (1140), Kenan Evren (1917), Justin II (520), Philippikos Bardanes (700), and Attalus I (-269). After him are Niketas Choniates (1155), Isidore of Miletus (442), Arcesilaus (-315), Xenocrates (-396), Theophanes the Confessor (758), and Novatian (220).

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Among HISTORIANS In Turkey

Among historians born in Turkey, Ali ibn al-Athir ranks 5. Before him are Herodotus (-484), Hecataeus of Miletus (-550), Cassius Dio (155), and Arrian (89). After him are Niketas Choniates (1155), Socrates of Constantinople (380), Libanius (314), Eutropius (320), Ephorus (-400), George Kedrenos (1100), and Eunapius (349).

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