# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ibn-zafar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:56:17.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ibn-zafar"
name: "Ibn Zafar"
slug: "ibn-zafar"
description: "Hujjat al-Din Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abi Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Zafar al-Siqilli, commonly known simply as Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli, was a philosopher, polymath and Arab-Sicilian politician of the Norman period, and has come to be known in the West as \"Niccolò Machiavelli's Arab Precursor\"."
tagline: "12th-century Arab-Sicilian philosopher and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ibn_Zafar_al_Siquilli.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1104"
deathDate: "1170"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.28617866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%B8%D9%81%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "ابن ظفر الصقلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ibn Zafar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Zafar_al-Siqilli"
    title: "Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ابن ظفر صقلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Zafar_al-Siqilli"
    title: "Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Zafar"
    title: "Ibn Zafar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B1%D0%BD_%D0%97%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Ибн Зафар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ibn Zafar al Siqilli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0bn_Zafer"
    title: "İbn Zafer"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%B8%D9%81%D8%B1_%D8%B5%D9%82%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "ابن ظفر صقلی"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump