Ibn Hawqal

943–978

10th century Arab writer and geographer

writer · merchant · geographer

Born in Nusaybin

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Ibn Hawqal:

Ferdowsi (940–1020)
Otto I the Great (912–973)
Murasaki Shikibu (970–)
Al-Biruni (973–1048)
Ibn al-Haytham (965–1039)
Leif Erikson (972–1020)
Farabi (870–951)

See everyone who was alive in 950 · 960 · 970.