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Ibn Wahshiyya

900 - 930

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Ibn Waḥshiyya (Arabic: ابن وحشية), died c. 930, was a Nabataean (Aramaic-speaking, rural Iraqi) agriculturalist, toxicologist, and alchemist born in Qussīn, near Kufa in Iraq. He is the author of the Nabataean Agriculture (Kitāb al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya), an influential Arabic work on agriculture, astrology, and magic. Already by the end of the tenth century, various works were being falsely attributed to him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Wahshiyya has received more than 149,091 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ibn Wahshiyya is the 163rd most popular historian (down from 151st in 2019), the 214th most popular biography from Iraq and the 4th most popular Iraqi Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ibn Wahshiyya ranks 163 out of 561. Before him are Paisius of Hilendar, Marin Barleti, Matthew of Edessa, Ibn al-Faqih, Arnold Toynbee, and Hermann Abert. After him are E. P. Thompson, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, Guibert of Nogent, Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad, Edgar Quinet, and Sozomen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 900, Ibn Wahshiyya ranks 37. Before him are Indravarman I, Wiborada, Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy, Rorik of Dorestad, Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin, and Wifred II, Count of Barcelona. After him are Engelberga, Naddodd, Sunyer, Count of Barcelona, Eochaid, son of Rhun, Ulf Jarl, and Ohthere of Hålogaland. Among people deceased in 930, Ibn Wahshiyya ranks 5. Before him are Rollo, Lestek, Emperor Daigo, and Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam. After him are Hucbald, Guy, Margrave of Tuscany, and Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ibn Wahshiyya ranks 214 out of 384. Before him are Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737), Al-Sharif al-Radi (970), Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (980), Al-Farazdaq (641), Mashallah ibn Athari (740), and Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer (1958). After him are Aphrahat (280), Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (1145), Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (1080), Nabonassar (-800), Sinsharishkun (-700), and Sa'dun Hammadi (1930).

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Among HISTORIANS In Iraq

Among historians born in Iraq, Ibn Wahshiyya ranks 4. Before him are Al-Baladhuri (806), Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (1002), and Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737). After him are Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (1145), Khalifah ibn Khayyat (777), and Avi Shlaim (1945).

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