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Ibn Wahshiyya

900 - 930

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Ibn Waḥshiyya (Arabic: ابن وحشية), died c. 930, was a Nabataean (Aramaic-speaking, rural Iraqi) agriculturalist, toxicologist, and alchemist born in Qussīn, near Kufa in Iraq. He is the author of the Nabataean Agriculture (Kitāb al-Filāḥa al-Nabaṭiyya), an influential Arabic work on agriculture, astrology, and magic. Already by the end of the tenth century, various works were being falsely attributed to him. One of these spurious writings, the Kitāb Shawq al-mustahām fī maʿrifat rumūz al-aqlām ("The Book of the Desire of the Maddened Lover for the Knowledge of Secret Scripts", perhaps 1022–3 CE), is notable as an early proposal that some Egyptian hieroglyphs could be read phonetically, rather than only logographically. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn Wahshiyya is the 193rd most popular historian (down from 163rd in 2019), the 219th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 214th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iraqi Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ibn Wahshiyya ranks 193 out of 561. Before him are Linda Nochlin, Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Ernst Kantorowicz, Krste Misirkov, and Henri Maspero. After him are Alexander Kazhdan, Aulus Cremutius Cordus, Paul Veyne, Roger Chartier, Slobodan Jovanović, and Christian Gottlob Heyne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 900, Ibn Wahshiyya ranks 43. Before him are Leo of Tripoli, Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy, Ohthere of Hålogaland, Sunyer, Count of Barcelona, Naddodd, and Æthelred II of Northumbria. After him are Wiborada, Wifred II, Count of Barcelona, Engelberga, Salomon, King of Brittany, Jayavarman IV, and Herman I, Count Palatine of Lotharingia. Among people deceased in 930, Ibn Wahshiyya ranks 5. Before him are Rollo, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Emperor Daigo, and Lestek. After him are Hucbald, Guy, Margrave of Tuscany, and Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.

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In Iraq

Among people born in Iraq, Ibn Wahshiyya ranks 219 out of 384. Before him are Al-Sharif al-Radi (970), Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi (640), Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (1002), Qusay Hussein (1966), Shalmaneser II (-1090), and Ashurnasirpal I (-1100). After him are Sayf al-Din Ghazi I (1200), Emmanuel III Delly (1927), Al-Farazdaq (641), Burna-Buriash II (-1400), Nechirvan Barzani (1966), and Lipit-Ishtar (-1890).

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Among HISTORIANS In Iraq

Among historians born in Iraq, Ibn Wahshiyya ranks 3. Before him are Al-Baladhuri (806), and Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (1002). After him are Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad (1145), Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737), Khalifah ibn Khayyat (777), and Avi Shlaim (1945).

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