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Abu Hanifa Dinawari

815 - 896

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Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd Dīnawarī (Arabic: أبو حنيفة أحمد بن داود الدينوري; died 895) was an Islamic Golden Age polymath: astronomer, agriculturist, botanist, metallurgist, geographer, mathematician, and historian. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abu Hanifa Dinawari is the 99th most popular astronomer (down from 67th in 2019), the 123rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 115th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Iranian Astronomer.

Abu Hanifa Dinawari is most famous for his work on the "Kitab al-Aghani" (The Book of Songs).

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Abu Hanifa Dinawari ranks 99 out of 644. Before him are Varāhamihira, Fritz Zwicky, Angelo Secchi, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, and Henry Norris Russell. After him are Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, Arthur Auwers, Tom Gehrels, Walter Sydney Adams, Edward Charles Pickering, and David Fabricius.

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Among people born in 815, Abu Hanifa Dinawari ranks 2. Before him is Theodora. After him are Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Pepin, Count of Vermandois, and Dawud al-Zahiri. Among people deceased in 896, Abu Hanifa Dinawari ranks 4. Before him are Pope Formosus, Pope Boniface VI, and Photios I of Constantinople. After him are Hastein, Khumarawayh ibn Ahmad ibn Tulun, and Ermengard of Italy.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abu Hanifa Dinawari ranks 123 out of 631. Before him are Bardiya (-580), Tahmasp II (1704), Muhammad I Tapar (1082), Sibawayh (760), Abbas III (1732), and Ata-Malik Juvayni (1226). After him are Jahan Shah (1397), Mohammad-Ali Rajai (1933), Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi (1155), Arsaces I of Parthia (-280), Haji Bektash Veli (1209), and Shahnaz Pahlavi (1940).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Iran

Among astronomers born in Iran, Abu Hanifa Dinawari ranks 4. Before him are Ulugh Beg (1394), Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903), and Jamshīd al-Kāshī (1380). After him are Alenush Terian (1921).

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