916 - 967
ʿAlī ibn ʾAbū'l-Hayjāʾ ʿAbdallāh ibn Ḥamdān ibn Ḥamdūn ibn al-Ḥārith al-Taghlibī (Arabic: علي بن أبو الهيجاء عبد الله بن حمدان بن الحارث التغلبي, 22 June 916 – 8 February 967), more commonly known simply by his honorific of Sayf al-Dawla (سيف الدولة, lit. 'Sword of the Dynasty'), was the founder of the Emirate of Aleppo, encompassing most of northern Syria and parts of the western Jazira. The most prominent member of the Hamdanid dynasty, Sayf al-Dawla originally served under his elder brother, Nasir al-Dawla, in the latter's attempts to establish his control over the weak Abbasid government in Baghdad during the early 940s CE. After the failure of these endeavours, the ambitious Sayf al-Dawla turned towards Syria, where he confronted the ambitions of the Ikhshidids of Lower Egypt to control the province. After two wars with them, his authority over northern Syria, centred at Aleppo, and the western Jazira, centred at Mayyafariqin, was recognized by the Ikhshidids and the Abbasid caliph. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sayf al-Dawla has received more than 171,241 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Sayf al-Dawla is the 7,166th most popular politician (up from 8,848th in 2019).
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Among politicians, Sayf al-Dawla ranks 7,166 out of 15,577. Before him are Appius Claudius Caudex, Hubert Maga, Bechara El Khoury, Meir Dagan, Roman of Bulgaria, and Wu Peifu. After him are Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia, Nitobe Inazō, Shō Tai, and Suleiman II.
300 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 7,160
1916 - 2000
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 7,161
1890 - 1964
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 7,162
1945 - 2016
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 7,163
930 - 997
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 7,164
1874 - 1939
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 7,165
916 - 967
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 7,166
1852 - 1890
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 7,167
1921 - 2009
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 7,168
1000 - 1038
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 7,169
1862 - 1933
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 7,170
1843 - 1901
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 7,171
1200 - 1204
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 7,172
Among people born in 916, Sayf al-Dawla ranks 1. Among people deceased in 967, Sayf al-Dawla ranks 3. Before him are Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia and Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani. After him are Emperor Murakami, Li Cheng, and Dub, King of Scotland.
915 - 967
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 1
897 - 967
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 2
916 - 967
HPI: 55.59
Rank: 3
926 - 967
HPI: 55.13
Rank: 4
919 - 967
HPI: 53.96
Rank: 5
1000 - 967
HPI: 50.95
Rank: 6