RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Bashar ibn Burd

714 - 783

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Abū Muʿādh Bashshār ibn Burd (Arabic: أبو معاذ بشّار بن برد; 714–783), nicknamed al-Muraʿʿath (Arabic: المرعّث, 'the wattled'), was a Persian poet of the late Umayyad and early Abbasid periods who wrote in Arabic. Bashshar was of Persian ethnicity; his grandfather was taken as a captive to Iraq, but his father was a freedman (mawla) of the Uqayl tribe. Some Arab scholars considered Bashshar the first "modern" poet, and one of the pioneers of badi' in Arabic literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bashar ibn Burd has received more than 70,911 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Bashar ibn Burd is the 1,309th most popular religious figure (up from 1,509th in 2019), the 197th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 207th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Iraqi Religious Figure.

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  • 71k

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  • 56.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Bashar ibn Burd ranks 1,309 out of 3,187. Before him are Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Uppalavanna, Claudio Acquaviva, Amoghavajra, An Shigao, and Ahmad al-Tijani. After him are Zanabazar, Pandita Ramabai, Nathan, Senhime, Augustin Bea, and Clement Mary Hofbauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 714, Bashar ibn Burd ranks 3. Before him are Childeric III, and Al-Mansur.  Among people deceased in 783, Bashar ibn Burd ranks 6. Before him are Bertrada of Laon, Al-Muqanna, Hildegard of the Vinzgau, Han Gan, and Silo of Asturias.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Bashar ibn Burd ranks 197 out of 384. Before him are Al-Hakim I (1247), Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (1162), Shalmaneser IV (-900), Alulim (null), Bethuel (null), and An Shigao (101). After him are Samsu-Ditana (-1700), Shar-Kali-Sharri (null), Manishtushu (null), Qusay Hussein (1966), Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi (640), and Ibn Muqla (886).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iraq

Among religious figures born in Iraq, Bashar ibn Burd ranks 23. Before him are Suhayb ar-Rumi (587), Ibn Sa'd (784), Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (1935), Abo of Tiflis (756), Dawud al-Zahiri (815), and An Shigao (101). After him are Lipit-Ishtar (-1890), Yahya ibn Ma'in (775), Ma'mar ibn al-Muthanna (728), Muhammad al-Sadr (1943), Nahor, son of Terah (null), and Al-Baqillani (950).

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