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Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī

923 - 1023

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Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī (Arabic: أبو حيان التوحيدي) (923–1023), full name ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbās al-Baghdadi (Arabic: علي بن محمد بن العباس التوحيدي البغدادي), was an Arab or Persian intellectual, writer, and philosopher of the 10th century. He is widely regarded as one of the most original and influential thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age. The biographer Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī famously described him as "the philosopher of litterateurs and the litterateur of philosophers." Despite his intellectual stature, al-Tawḥīdī was largely neglected by contemporaneous historians and biographers until Yāqūt documented his life in Muʿjam al-Udabāʾ (معجم الأدباء), relying primarily on al-Tawḥīdī’s own autobiographical writings. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī is the 3,950th most popular writer (down from 3,445th in 2019), the 289th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 278th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Iraqi Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī ranks 3,950 out of 7,302. Before him are Israel Zangwill, Viktor Yerofeyev, Leonidas of Tarentum, Gabriel Chevallier, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, and Daniela Hodrová. After him are Gʻafur Gʻulom, Labīd, Molla Panah Vagif, Jorge Isaacs, Ivo Vojnović, and Alejandro Casona.

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Among people born in 923, Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī ranks 5. Before him are Jeongjong, 3rd monarch of Goryeo, Eadred, Emperor Suzaku, and Bernard of Menthon.  Among people deceased in 1023, Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī ranks 3. Before him are Sitt al-Mulk, and Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine. After him are Oda of Haldensleben, and Wulfstan.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī ranks 289 out of 384. Before him are Shamshi-Adad IV (-1100), Ibn Butlan (1001), Tahir Yahya (1913), Mahmud Nedim Pasha (1818), Ashur-bel-kala (-1200), and Ashur-nadin-ahhe II (-1500). After him are Ishme-Dagan (-2000), Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (1967), Ali Larijani (1957), Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750), Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni (1879), and Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi (1863).

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Among WRITERS In Iraq

Among writers born in Iraq, Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī ranks 25. Before him are Al-Asmaʿi (740), Abu-l-'Atahiya (748), Abu Firas al-Hamdani (932), Nazik Al-Malaika (1923), Jacob of Serugh (451), and Abu Isa al-Warraq (null). After him are Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf (750), Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz (861), Abdullah Goran (1904), Ahmet Haşim (1887), and Muhsin al-Ramli (1967).

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