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Mariam al-Asturlabi

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Al-ʻIjliyyah bint al-ʻIjliyy (Arabic: العجلية بنت العجلي) was a 10th-century maker of astrolabes active in Aleppo, in what is now northern Syria. She is sometimes known in modern popular literature as Mariam al-Asṭurlābiyya (Arabic: مريم الأسطرلابية) but her supposed first name 'Mariam' is not mentioned in the only known source about her life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mariam al-Asturlabi has received more than 80,521 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Mariam al-Asturlabi is the 147th most popular astronomer (up from 196th in 2019), the 77th most popular biography from Syria (up from 96th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Syrian Astronomer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Mariam al-Asturlabi ranks 147 out of 644. Before her are Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, August Kopff, Johann Daniel Titius, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. After her are George Biddell Airy, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Guillaume Bigourdan, and Antonie Pannekoek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 950, Mariam al-Asturlabi ranks 9. Before her are Adelaide of Aquitaine, Ibn Yunus, Maslama al-Majriti, Arslan Isra'il, Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia, and Leo the Deacon. After her are Abhinavagupta, Bernard I, Duke of Saxony, Olof Björnsson, William I of Provence, Michael Krešimir II of Croatia, and Otto III, Duke of Swabia.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Mariam al-Asturlabi ranks 77 out of 210. Before her are Ibn Asakir (1105), Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan (1080), Ibn al-Shatir (1304), Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), Shukri al-Quwatli (1891), and Anisa Makhlouf (1930). After her are Al-Qa'im (893), Jurji Zaydan (1861), Ghassan Massoud (1958), Sergius I of Constantinople (565), Thierry, Count of Flanders (1100), and Vaballathus (266).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Syria

Among astronomers born in Syria, Mariam al-Asturlabi ranks 2. Before her are Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf (1526).

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