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The 10th century
Whose working lives fell in the 10th century. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 10th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Al-Farabi7 decades - 2Saadia Gaon22 decades
- 3Abhinavagupta10 decades
- 4
Symeon the New Theologian3 decades - 5
Al-Karaji0 decades - 6
Ibn Sahl1 decades - 7
Ibn Miskawayh0 decades - 8Seongjongnot measured-
- 9
Ibn Yunus0 decades - 10Al-Shaykh Al-Mufidnot measured-
- 11Gershom ben Judah0 decades
- 12
Abbo of Fleury0 decades - 13
Fulbert of Chartres0 decades - 14
Al-Ash'ari0 decades - 15Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi0 decades
- 16Sridhara13 decades
- 17
Abd al-Jabbar ibn Ahmadnot measured- - 18Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdīnot measured-
- 19
Yamunacharya0 decades - 20Abu Nasr Mansur0 decades
- 21Al-Jaṣṣāsnot measured-
- 22
Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisinot measured- - 23
Abu al-Wafa' Buzjaninot measured- - 24
Ibn Furak0 decades - 25Abu al-Hassan al-Amirinot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.