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Ibn al-Muqaffa'

724 - 756

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Abū Muhammad ʿAbd Allāh Rūzbih ibn Dādūya (Arabic: ابو محمد عبدالله روزبه ابن دادويه), born Rōzbih pūr-i Dādōē (Persian: روزبه پور دادویه), more commonly known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Arabic: ابن المقفع; died c. 756/759), was a Persian translator, philosopher, author and thinker who wrote in the Arabic language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn al-Muqaffa' has received more than 196,373 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ibn al-Muqaffa' is the 784th most popular writer (up from 921st in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Iran (up from 120th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Iranian Writer.

Ibn al-Muqaffa' is most famous for his translations of Greek and Syriac texts into Arabic.

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  • 200k

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  • 63.50

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ibn al-Muqaffa' ranks 784 out of 7,302. Before him are V. S. Naipaul, Demetrius Vikelas, Sinclair Lewis, Georg Brandes, Raymond Carver, and Tove Ditlevsen. After him are Menippus, Theodore Beza, Pope Dionysius of Alexandria, Tao Yuanming, Jin Yong, and Marie Mancini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 724, Ibn al-Muqaffa' ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 756, Ibn al-Muqaffa' ranks 2. Before him is Yang Guifei. After him are Emperor Shōmu, Aistulf, Kormisosh, Galla Gaulo, Cuthred of Wessex, and Wang Changling.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ibn al-Muqaffa' ranks 108 out of 631. Before him are Shahnaz Pahlavi (1940), Yazdegerd I (400), Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar (1872), Orodes II (-70), Safi of Persia (1611), and Mithridates I of Parthia (-195). After him are Demetrius II Nicator (-161), Qazi Muhammad (1893), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Yazdegerd II (500), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), and Mohammad Shah Qajar (1808).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Ibn al-Muqaffa' ranks 12. Before him are Shams Tabrizi (1185), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Saadi Shirazi (1210), Jami (1414), Doris Lessing (1919), and Attar of Nishapur (1145). After him are Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Ali Shariati (1933), Forough Farrokhzad (1935), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), and Baba Tahir (947).

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