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Ibn 'Idhari

1300 - 1299

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Abū al-ʽAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʽIḏārī al-Marrākushī (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد ابن عذاري المراكشي) was a Maghrebi historian of the late-13th/early-14th century, and author of the famous Al-Bayan al-Mughrib, an important medieval history of the Maghreb (Morocco, North Africa) and Al-Andalus (now the Iberian Peninsula) written in 1312. Ibn Idhāri was born and lived in Marrakech (present-day Morocco), and was a qāʾid ('commander') of Fez. Little is known of his life. His only surviving work, Al-Bayan al-Mughrib, is a history of North Africa from the conquest of Miṣr in 640/1 AD to the Almohad conquests in 1205/6 AD. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn 'Idhari has received more than 8,063 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn 'Idhari is the 280th most popular historian, the 75th most popular biography from Morocco and the most popular Moroccan Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ibn 'Idhari ranks 280 out of 561. Before him are Zuo Qiuming, Muhammad Aufi, Alexander Svanidze, Régine Pernoud, Annius of Viterbo, and Max Jakob Friedländer. After him are Marino Sanuto the Younger, Iryna Melnykova, Claude Cahen, Janko Prunk, Tom Segev, and Ziya Bunyadov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1300, Ibn 'Idhari ranks 55. Before him are Yekuno Amlak, Teresa d'Entença, John II Orsini, Ana Terter, Baibars II, and Constantine II, King of Armenia. After him are Rutebeuf, William II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Callistus I of Constantinople, Lajin, Jacqueline Felice de Almania, and Ivan II of Bulgaria. Among people deceased in 1299, Ibn 'Idhari ranks 7. Before him are Eric II of Norway, Margaret, Countess of Anjou, Gertrude of Austria, John I, Count of Holland, Lucia, Countess of Tripoli, and Daumantas of Pskov. After him is Lajin.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Ibn 'Idhari ranks 75 out of 264. Before him are Abdellatif Filali (1928), Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco (1978), Ahmed Aboutaleb (1961), Ahmed Osman (1930), Ezzaki Badou (1959), and Ibrahim ibn Tashfin (1131). After him are Yves Lacoste (1929), Mustapha Hadji (1971), Dunash ben Labrat (920), Saadeddine Othmani (1956), Dominique Mamberti (1952), and Driss Chraïbi (1926).

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Among HISTORIANS In Morocco

Among historians born in Morocco, Ibn 'Idhari ranks 1. 

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