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Ibn Kathir

1301 - 1373

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Abu al-Fida Isma'il ibn Umar ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi (Arabic: أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير الدمشقي, romanized: Abū al-Fiḍā’ Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Umar ibn Kathīr al-Dimashqī; c. 1300–1373), known simply as Ibn Kathir, was an Arab Islamic exegete, historian and scholar. An expert on tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), tarikh (history) and fiqh (jurisprudence), he is considered a leading authority on Sunni Islam. Born in Bostra, Mamluk Sultanate, Ibn Kathir's teachers include al-Dhahabi and Ibn Taymiyya. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Kathir has received more than 1,118,915 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Ibn Kathir is the 23rd most popular historian (up from 30th in 2019), the 12th most popular biography from Syria (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Historian.

Ibn Kathir is most famous for his commentary on the Qur'an.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ibn Kathir ranks 23 out of 561. Before him are William of Tyre, Cassius Dio, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Arnold J. Toynbee, Leopold von Ranke, and Procopius. After him are Fernand Braudel, Arrian, Johan Huizinga, Saxo Grammaticus, Marc Bloch, and Friedrich Carl von Savigny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1301, Ibn Kathir ranks 1. After him are Otto, Duke of Austria, Kera Tamara, Ni Zan, Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver, Simone Boccanegra, Andrew Corsini, Prince Morikuni, Catherine of Valois–Courtenay, Muhammad Shah of Brunei, Ubayd Zakani, and Nitta Yoshisada. Among people deceased in 1373, Ibn Kathir ranks 2. Before him is Bridget of Sweden. After him are Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre, Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria, Andrew Corsini, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Magnus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Constantine IV of Armenia.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Ibn Kathir ranks 12 out of 210. Before him are Abd al-Rahman I (731), Pope Gregory III (700), Philip the Arab (204), Bashar al-Assad (1965), Imad ad-Din Zengi (1087), and Apollodorus of Damascus (50). After him are Pope Anicetus (70), Muawiya II (661), Marwan II (688), Julia Domna (160), Al-Nawawi (1233), and Al-Maʿarri (973).

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Among HISTORIANS In Syria

Among historians born in Syria, Ibn Kathir ranks 1. After him are Al-Dhahabi (1274), Nicolaus of Damascus (-64), Evagrius Scholasticus (536), Malchus (450), and Abu Shama (1203).

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