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Ibn Abd al-Hakam

800 - 871

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Abu'l Qāsim ʿAbd ar-Raḥman bin ʿAbdullah bin ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (Arabic: أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن عبد الحكم), generally known simply as Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (ابن عبد الحكم; 801 AD – 257 AH / 871 AD) was a Sunni Muslim historian and jurist from Fustat, Egypt. He wrote a work generally known as " The Conquest of Egypt and North Africa and al-Andalus" (Arabic: فتوح مصر والمغرب والاندلس, Futūḥ mișr wa'l-maghrib wa'l-andalus). This work is considered one of the earliest Islamic Arabic-language histories to have survived to the present day. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn Abd al-Hakam is the 186th most popular historian (up from 201st in 2019). (up from 2,036th in 2019)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ibn Abd al-Hakam ranks 186 out of 561. Before him are Friedrich Meinecke, Janko Prunk, Joseph Klausner, Ferdinand Gregorovius, Christopher Browning, and Pulakeshin II. After him are Linda Nochlin, Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Ernst Kantorowicz, Krste Misirkov, and Henri Maspero.

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Among people born in 800, Ibn Abd al-Hakam ranks 39. Before him are Maria, wife of Constantine V, Thyra, Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin, Nennius, Aznar Galíndez I, and Alkmund of Derby. After him are Toktu of Bulgaria, Sabin of Bulgaria, Jayavarman III, Giustiniano Participazio, Hanshan, and Umor of Bulgaria. Among people deceased in 871, Ibn Abd al-Hakam ranks 2. Before him is Æthelred I, King of Wessex.

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