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Ibn al-Faqih

Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadani (Persian: احمد بن محمد ابن فقيه همدانی) (fl. 902) was a 10th-century Persian historian and geographer, famous for his Mukhtasar Kitab al-Buldan ("Concise Book of Lands") written in Arabic. In the 1870s the Dutch orientalist Michael Jan de Goeje edited a selection of geography works of Arab geographers in an eight-volume series titled Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum published by Lugduni-Batavae (Leiden) Brill publishers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn al-Faqih has received more than 69,452 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ibn al-Faqih is the 160th most popular historian (up from 169th in 2019), the 223rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 217th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iranian Historian.

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Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
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Languages Editions (L)
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Effective Languages (L*)
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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ibn al-Faqih ranks 160 out of 561. Before him are Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, Edward Luttwak, Helmold, Paisius of Hilendar, Marin Barleti, and Matthew of Edessa. After him are Arnold Toynbee, Hermann Abert, Ibn Wahshiyya, E. P. Thompson, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, and Guibert of Nogent.

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Marin Barleti
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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ibn al-Faqih ranks 223 out of 631. Before him are Fazlollah Zahedi (1897), Gotarzes I (-200), Amir-Abbas Hoveyda (1919), Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281), Daqiqi (1000), and Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (838). After him are Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Amir Kabir (1807), Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883), and Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (854).

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