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Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi

1256 - 1321

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Ibn al‐Bannāʾ al‐Marrākushī (Arabic: ابن البناء المراكشي), full name: Abu'l-Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Azdi al-Marrakushi (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد بن محمد بن عثمان الأزدي) (29 December 1256 – 31 July 1321), was an Arab Muslim polymath who was active as a mathematician, astronomer, Islamic scholar, Sufi and astrologer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi has received more than 73,815 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi is the 410th most popular mathematician (up from 431st in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Morocco (down from 61st in 2019) and the most popular Moroccan Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi ranks 410 out of 1,004Before him are Bhāskara I, Philippe de La Hire, Abraham Fraenkel, Guido Fubini, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, and Mary Cartwright. After him are Carl Ludwig Siegel, Thomas Fincke, László Lovász, Abraham Robinson, Henryk Zygalski, and Georgy Voronoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1256, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi ranks 4Before him are Robert, Count of Clermont, Gertrude the Great, and Henryk IV Probus. After him are Catherine of Hungary, Queen of Serbia, Henry I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, and Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos. Among people deceased in 1321, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi ranks 7Before him are Dante Alighieri, Yunus Emre, Stefan Milutin, Matthew III Csák, Birger, King of Sweden, and María de Molina.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi ranks 63 out of 264Before him are Mohamed Oufkir (1920), Shlomo Ben-Ami (1943), Macha Méril (1940), Driss Jettou (1945), Abu Zakariya Yahya (1203), and Abderrahmane Youssoufi (1924). After him are Samira Said (1958), Abdallah ibn Yasin (null), Yazid of Morocco (1750), Mohammed Ben Aarafa (1886), Michel Qissi (1962), and Abdellatif Filali (1928).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Morocco

Among mathematicians born in Morocco, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi ranks 1