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Banū Mūsā

900 - 873

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The three brothers Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (before 803 – February 873); Abū al-Qāsim, Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (d. 9th century) and Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir (d. 9th century), were Persian scholars who lived and worked in Baghdad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Banū Mūsā has received more than 265,384 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Banū Mūsā is the 61st most popular engineer (down from 45th in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 96th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Engineer.

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  • 270k

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  • 60.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Banū Mūsā ranks 61 out of 389. Before him are Bjarne Stroustrup, Viktor Belenko, Masaru Ibuka, Loránd Eötvös, Henry Gantt, and Immanuel Nobel. After him are Valentin Glushko, Kurt Gerstein, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Hans Kammler, Walter Dornberger, and Paul Cornu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 900, Banū Mūsā ranks 16. Before him are Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Pope Stephen VIII, Robert the Strong, Berengar II of Italy, Pope Leo VIII, and Guy III of Spoleto. After him are Zoe Karbonopsina, Symeon the Metaphrast, Theodora, Hermann Billung, Antipope Christopher, and George Hamartolos. Among people deceased in 873, Banū Mūsā ranks 3. Before him are Ivar the Boneless, and Hunayn ibn Ishaq. After him are Vímara Peres, and Emperor Yizong of Tang.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Banū Mūsā ranks 115 out of 384. Before him are Al-Mawardi (974), Tukulti-Ninurta I (-1300), Kerbogha (1100), Al-Qahir (899), Diogenes of Babylon (-240), and Al-Muhtadi (825). After him are Phraates II (-200), Ibn Khallikan (1211), Taha Yassin Ramadan (1938), Al-Mu'tadid (854), Ziusudra (null), and Al-Muktafi (875).

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Among ENGINEERS In Iraq

Among engineers born in Iraq, Banū Mūsā ranks 1. 

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