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Ibn al-Muqaffa'

724 - 756

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Abū Muhammad ʿAbd Allāh Rūzbih ibn Dādūya (Arabic: ابو محمد عبدالله روزبه ابن دادويه), born Rōzbih pūr-i Dādōē (Persian: روزبه پور دادویه), more commonly known as Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (Arabic: ابن المقفع; died c. 756/759), was a Persian translator, philosopher, author and thinker who wrote in the Arabic language. He bore the name Rōzbeh/Rūzbeh before his comparatively late conversion to Islam from Manichaeism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn al-Muqaffa' is the 875th most popular writer (down from 783rd in 2019), the 113th most popular biography from Iran (down from 108th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Iranian Writer.

Ibn al-Muqaffa' is most famous for his translations of Greek and Syriac texts into Arabic.

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Among writers, Ibn al-Muqaffa' ranks 875 out of 7,302. Before him are Douglas Adams, Georg Brandes, Thietmar of Merseburg, Thomas Harris, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, and Guido Cavalcanti. After him are Miep Gies, Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz, Jerzy Kosiński, Laura de Noves, Danilo Kiš, and Varlam Shalamov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 724, Ibn al-Muqaffa' ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 756, Ibn al-Muqaffa' ranks 2. Before him is Yang Guifei. After him are Emperor Shōmu, Aistulf, Kormisosh, Galla Gaulo, Cuthred of Wessex, and Wang Changling.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ibn al-Muqaffa' ranks 113 out of 631. Before him are Orodes II (-70), Demetrius II Nicator (-161), Yazdegerd II (500), Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125), Ali Shariati (1933), and Qasem Soleimani (1957). After him are Abolhassan Banisadr (1933), Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar (1872), Ebrahim Raisi (1960), Bardiya (-580), Tahmasp II (1704), and Muhammad I Tapar (1082).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Ibn al-Muqaffa' ranks 15. Before him are Doris Lessing (1919), Saadi Shirazi (1210), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani (1125), and Ali Shariati (1933). After him are Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Forough Farrokhzad (1935), Baba Tahir (947), and Azar Nafisi (1955).

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