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Ibn Abd al-Hakam

800 - 871

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Abu'l Qāsim ʿAbd ar-Raḥman bin ʿAbdullah bin ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (Arabic: أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن عبد الحكم), generally known simply as Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (ابن عبد الحكم; 801 AD – 257 AH / 871 AD) was a Sunni Muslim historian and jurist from Fustat, Egypt. He wrote a work generally known as " The Conquest of Egypt and North Africa and al-Andalus" (Arabic: فتوح مصر والمغرب والاندلس, Futūḥ mișr wa'l-maghrib wa'l-andalus). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Abd al-Hakam has received more than 34,879 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ibn Abd al-Hakam is the 201st most popular historian (up from 226th in 2019).

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ibn Abd al-Hakam ranks 201 out of 561. Before him are Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Frederick Jackson Turner, Max Weinreich, Abu Mikhnaf, Linda Nochlin, and Robert Conquest. After him are Pulakeshin II, Alexander Vasiliev, Philochorus, Karl Otfried Müller, Walter Laqueur, and Tony Judt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 800, Ibn Abd al-Hakam ranks 45. Before him are Sabin of Bulgaria, Umor of Bulgaria, Wulfstan of Hedeby, Saraha, Bragi Boddason, and Ashot I of Iberia. After him are Toktu of Bulgaria, Agnello Participazio, Boso the Elder, Krešimir I of Croatia, Charibert of Laon, and Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq. Among people deceased in 871, Ibn Abd al-Hakam ranks 2. Before him is Æthelred I, King of Wessex.

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