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Also Known As Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Masʿūdī
Born Before 893 • Baghdad • Iraq
Died September 956 • al-Fusṭāṭ • Egypt
Notable Works “Akhbār al-zamān” • “Kitāb al-awsaṭ” • “Kitāb al-tanbīh wa al-ishrāf” • “Murūj al-dhahab wa maʿādin al-jawāhir”
Alexander Polyhistor
Roman philosopher, geographer, and historian
Ibn al-Athīr
Arab historian
al-Hamdānī
Arab author
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Strabo
Strabo
Greek geographer and historian
Dio Cassius
Roman historian
Neşri
Ottoman historian
Ephorus
Greek historian
Hesychius Of Miletus
Byzantine historian
Kâtip Çelebi
Turkish historian
Ahmed Dede Müneccimbaşı
Ottoman writer
Friedrich Schlosser
German historian
Diodorus Siculus
Greek historian
François Laurent
Belgian historian
Wei Yuan
Chinese historian
Ibn Miskawayh
Islamic scholar
Rashīd al-Dīn: Ghaznavids in Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh
Rashīd al-Dīn
Persian statesman
Otto Henne am Rhyn
Swiss historian
André Duchesne, detail from an engraving
André Duchesne
French historian
Otto Of Freising
Otto Of Freising
German bishop

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