← Fame through time700-799
The 8th century
Whose working lives fell in the 8th 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 8th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'inot measured- - 2
Wasil ibn Ata0 decades - 3Hafsnot measured-
- 4Jahm bin Safwan0 decades
- 5
Hasan ibn Zayd0 decades - 6
Muqātil ibn Sulaymān al-Balkhīnot measured- - 7
Nafi' al-Madaninot measured- - 8
Ibrahim al-Nakhainot measured- - 9
Ibn Jurayj0 decades - 10
Hisham ibn Urwahnot measured- - 11
Sulayman ibn Mihran al-A’mashnot measured- - 12
Imam Zufar0 decades - 13Elipando0 decades
- 14Abd al-Wahid ibn Zaidnot measured-
- 15
Muḥammad Ibn-al-Huḏail Abu-'l-Huḏail al-ʿAllāfnot measured- - 16
Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyahnot measured- - 17Ikrima ibn Abd Allah al-Barbarinot measured-
- 18
Odulf of Stavorennot measured- - 19
Ḍirār ibn ʻAmr al-Ghaṭafānīnot measured- - 20
Hovhannes III of Odzunnot 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.