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Ibn Ishaq

704 - 767

Ibn Ishaq

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi (Arabic: أَبُو عَبْدُ ٱلله مُحَمَّد ٱبْن إِسْحَاق ٱبْن يَسَار ٱلْمُطَّلِبيّ, romanized: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʾIsḥāq ibn Yasār al-Muṭṭalibī; c. 80 AH (699/700CE)– 151 AH (768/769CE), known simply as Ibn Ishaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer who collected oral traditions that formed the basis of an important biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. His biography is known as the Al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah, and it has mainly survived through several recensions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn Ishaq is the 35th most popular historian (down from 34th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (up from 67th in 2019) and the most popular Saudi Arabian Historian.

Ibn Ishaq is most famous for his work, "The Life of Muhammad," which is a biography of the Prophet Muhammad.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ibn Ishaq ranks 35 out of 561. Before him are Ibn Kathir, Edward Gibbon, Jacob Burckhardt, Saxo Grammaticus, Eric Hobsbawm, and Marc Bloch. After him are Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Hippolyte Taine, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Leonardo Bruni, Jacques Le Goff, and Adam of Bremen.

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Ibn Kathir
1301 - 1373
HPI: 74.60
Rank: 29
Edward Gibbon
1737 - 1794
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 30
Jacob Burckhardt
1818 - 1897
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 31
Saxo Grammaticus
1150 - 1220
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 32
Eric Hobsbawm
1917 - 2012
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 33
Marc Bloch
1886 - 1944
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 34
Ibn Ishaq
704 - 767
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 35
Friedrich Carl von Savigny
1779 - 1861
HPI: 73.18
Rank: 36
Hippolyte Taine
1828 - 1893
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 37
Quintus Curtius Rufus
41 - 53
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 38
Leonardo Bruni
1370 - 1444
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 39
Jacques Le Goff
1924 - 2014
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 40
Adam of Bremen
1100 - 1080
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 41

Contemporaries

Among people born in 704, Ibn Ishaq ranks 1. After him are Saint Sturm, and Cui Hao. Among people deceased in 767, Ibn Ishaq ranks 3. Before him are Abu Hanifa, and Pope Paul I. After him is Toktu of Bulgaria.