Alhazen

Quality:

Ibn al-Haytham - Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (c. 965 – c. 1040). This person is the 6505^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Alhazen” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 8136^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9481^st most popular in AI.

The 6505^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 7322^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Alhazen”, its content was written by 27 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (8136^th place) and edited by 2592 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9481^st place).

Ibn al-Haytham is on the 6505^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 14 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5071 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #626 in February 2012
• Global: #719 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1760 in September 2011
• Global: #997 in July 2013

There are 53 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Ibn al-Haytham		91.7597
2	Hindi (hi) इब्न अल-हेथम		85.5
3	Danish (da) Alhazen		85.217
4	Malay (ms) Abu Ali Hasan Ibn Al-Haitham		85.1702
5	Korean (ko) 이븐 알하이삼		76.7683
6	Arabic (ar) ابن الهيثم		69.147
7	Turkish (tr) İbnü'l-Heysem		54.3325
8	Persian (fa) ابن هیثم		49.5386
9	Catalan (ca) Ibn al-Hàytham		47.4816
10	Spanish (es) Alhacén		47.227

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Arabic (ar) ابن الهيثم		5 218 498
2	English (en) Ibn al-Haytham		4 783 670
3	French (fr) Alhazen		727 625
4	Turkish (tr) İbnü'l-Heysem		624 939
5	Persian (fa) ابن هیثم		471 965
6	Spanish (es) Alhacén		457 075
7	Indonesian (id) Ibnu al-Haitsam		431 729
8	German (de) Alhazen		255 261
9	Russian (ru) Ибн аль-Хайсам		214 594
10	Portuguese (pt) Alhazém		137 633

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ibn al-Haytham		25 034
2	Arabic (ar) ابن الهيثم		6 533
3	French (fr) Alhazen		1 765
4	Turkish (tr) İbnü'l-Heysem		1 577
5	Persian (fa) ابن هیثم		1 441
6	Spanish (es) Alhacén		1 202
7	Indonesian (id) Ibnu al-Haitsam		1 184
8	Russian (ru) Ибн аль-Хайсам		1 170
9	Simple English (simple) Alhazen		880
10	Japanese (ja) イブン・ハイサム		718

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ibn al-Haytham		789
2	French (fr) Alhazen		212
3	Arabic (ar) ابن الهيثم		149
4	German (de) Alhazen		143
5	Persian (fa) ابن هیثم		136
6	Italian (it) Alhazen		112
7	Turkish (tr) İbnü'l-Heysem		85
8	Hebrew (he) אבן אל-היית'ם		77
9	Dutch (nl) Alhazen		73
10	Spanish (es) Alhacén		58

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ibn al-Haytham		4
2	Turkish (tr) İbnü'l-Heysem		2
3	Arabic (ar) ابن الهيثم		1
4	Belarusian (be) Ібн аль-Хайсам		1
5	Polish (pl) Ibn al-Hajsam		1
6	Chinese (zh) 伊本·海什木		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) İbn Heysəm		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Ибн ал-Хайтам		0
9	Catalan (ca) Ibn al-Hàytham		0
10	Czech (cs) Alhazen		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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