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Ibn Hisham

701 - 833

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Abu Muhammad Abd al-Malik ibn Hisham ibn Ayyub al-Himyari (Arabic: أَبُو مُحَمَّدٌ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ هِشَامٍ بْنُ أَيُّوبَ الْحِمْيَرِيِّ, romanized: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī; died 7 May 833), known simply as Ibn Hisham, was a 9th-century Abbasid historian and scholar. He grew up in Basra, in modern-day Iraq and later moved to Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn Hisham is the 709th most popular religious figure (down from 590th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 55th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Iraqi Religious Figure.

Ibn Hisham was a historian and geographer. He is most famous for his work Kitab al-Tabaghat al-Kubra, which is a history of the world from creation to 961.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ibn Hisham ranks 709 out of 3,187. Before him are Raymond of Penyafort, Antipope Felix II, Menno Simons, Louis Raphaël I Sako, Giulia Farnese, and Pope Peter I of Alexandria. After him are Je Tsongkhapa, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya, Evagrius Ponticus, Joseph of Cupertino, Aloysius Stepinac, and Ignatios of Constantinople.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 701, Ibn Hisham ranks 2. Before him is Li Bai. After him are Yazid III, Emperor Shōmu, John VII of Constantinople, Tzitzak, Saman Khuda, Al-Khayzuran, Theophano of Athens, Thekla, wife of Michael II, Yahya ibn Khalid, and Euphemius. Among people deceased in 833, Ibn Hisham ranks 2. Before him is Al-Ma'mun. After him are Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, García Galíndez, and Enravota.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ibn Hisham ranks 69 out of 384. Before him are Ziryab (789), Shamash-shum-ukin (-650), Tiglath-Pileser I (-1200), Ali Hassan al-Majid (1941), Louis Raphaël I Sako (1948), and Tariq Aziz (1936). After him are Abu Yusuf (731), Nahor, son of Serug (-1912), Tiglath-Pileser III (-755), Shalmaneser I (-1400), Berossus (-400), and Qutayba ibn Muslim (668).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iraq

Among religious figures born in Iraq, Ibn Hisham ranks 12. Before him are Ezra (-500), Muhammad al-Mahdi (869), Belshazzar (-600), Eber (-2038), Junayd of Baghdad (830), and Louis Raphaël I Sako (1948). After him are Nahor, son of Serug (-1912), Hillel the Elder (-110), Ibn Qutaybah (828), Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah (1935), Ibn Sa'd (784), and Abo of Tiflis (756).

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