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Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani

893 - 945

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Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī (Arabic: أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني, 279/280-333/334 A.H.; c. 893 – 947;) was an Arab Muslim geographer, chemist, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer, from the tribe of Banu Hamdan, western 'Amran, Yemen. He was one of the best representatives of Islamic culture during the last period of the Abbasid Caliphate. His work was the subject of extensive 19th-century Austrian scholarship. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani is the 64th most popular geographer (down from 46th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Yemen (down from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Yemeni Geographer.

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Among geographers, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani ranks 64 out of 86. Before him are Pedro Reinel, Adolf Stieler, Johannes Gabriel Granö, Anton Friedrich Büsching, Vaclav Smil, and Torsten Hägerstrand. After him are Richard Hartshorne, Doreen Massey, Ellsworth Huntington, John Walter Gregory, Curt von François, and Aaron Arrowsmith.

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Among people born in 893, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani ranks 5. Before him are William Longsword, Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, Louis the Child, and Al-Qa'im.  Among people deceased in 945, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani ranks 5. Before him are Igor of Kiev, Hyejong of Goryeo, Ki no Tsurayuki, and Krešimir I of Croatia.

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In Yemen

Among people born in Yemen, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani ranks 22 out of 35. Before him are Ahmad bin Yahya (1891), Ali Nasir Muhammad (1940), Shoshana Damari (1923), Mohammed Basindawa (1935), Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas (1939), and Abdul-Malik al-Houthi (1979). After him are Eddie Izzard (1962), Ibrahim al-Hamdi (1943), Abdullah al-Sallal (1917), Ahmad al-Ghashmi (1935), Ali Muhammad Mujawar (1953), and Abdul Qadir Bajamal (1946).

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Among geographers born in Yemen, Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani ranks 1. 

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