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Ibn Khallikan

1211 - 1282

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Aḥmad bin Muḥammad bin Ibrāhīm bin Abū Bakr ibn Khallikān (Arabic: أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم بن أبي بكر ابن خلكان; 22 September 1211 – 30 October 1282), better known as Ibn Khallikān, was a renowned Kurdish Islamic historian who compiled the celebrated biographical encyclopedia of Muslim scholars and important men in Muslim history, Deaths of Eminent Men and the Sons of the Epoch (Arabic: وفيات الأعيان وأنباء أبناء الزمان, romanized: wafayāt al-ʾaʿyān wa-ʾanbāʾ ʾabnāʾ al-zamān). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Khallikan has received more than 148,044 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ibn Khallikan is the 1,203rd most popular writer (up from 1,345th in 2019), the 117th most popular biography from Iraq (up from 124th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Iraqi Writer.

Ibn Khallikan was a medieval Muslim historian and biographer. He is most famous for his biographical dictionary, the Wafayāt al-aʿyān wa-anbāʾ abnāʾ az-zamān (Memoirs of the Notables and History of the Time), which is considered one of the most important works of Arabic literature.

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  • 5.80

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  • 2.44

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Among writers, Ibn Khallikan ranks 1,203 out of 7,302. Before him are Max Nordau, Pierre de Marivaux, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Dan Simmons, Alexander Kielland, and Reinaldo Arenas. After him are Roger Caillois, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Odoric of Pordenone, Ida Tarbell, Theodor Storm, and Léo Taxil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1211, Ibn Khallikan ranks 4. Before him are Henry of Germany, Frederick II, Duke of Austria, and Agnes of Bohemia. After him are Iltutmish, Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Denmark, and Margaret of Bourbon, Queen of Navarre. Among people deceased in 1282, Ibn Khallikan ranks 7. Before him are Michael VIII Palaiologos, Abaqa Khan, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Nichiren, Agnes of Bohemia, and Mengu-Timur. After him are Traidenis, George Akropolites, Margaret Sambiria, and Mechthild of Magdeburg.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ibn Khallikan ranks 117 out of 384. Before him are Kerbogha (1100), Al-Qahir (899), Diogenes of Babylon (-240), Al-Muhtadi (825), Banū Mūsā (900), and Phraates II (-200). After him are Taha Yassin Ramadan (1938), Al-Mu'tadid (854), Ziusudra (null), Al-Muktafi (875), Ibbi-Sin (-2050), and Suhayb ar-Rumi (587).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Ibn Khallikan ranks 10. Before him are Ahmad ibn Fadlan (900), Enheduanna (-2300), Berossus (-400), Ibn al-Jawzi (1116), Al-Mutanabbi (915), and Ibn Sirin (653). After him are Ibn al-Nadim (1000), Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (718), Al-Hariri of Basra (1054), Al-Sharif al-Radi (970), Al-Farazdaq (641), and Aphrahat (280).

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