Arab Muslim geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer
893 CE
to 945 CE
Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ya‘qūb al-Hamdānī (c. 893-945) is an Arab Muslim geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer, from the tribe of Banu Hamadan, western 'Amran/Yemen.
He is one of the best representatives of Islamic culture during the last effective years of the Abbasid caliphate.