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Abai Qunanbaiuly

1845 - 1904

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Abai Qūnanbaiūly (Kazakh: Абай Құнанбайұлы [ɑˈbɑj qʊnɑmˌbɑjʊˈɫɤ] ; Russian: Абай Кунанбаев; 10 August [O.S. 29 July] 1845 – 6 July [O.S. 23 June] 1904) was a Kazakh poet, composer and Hanafi Maturidi theologian philosopher. He was also a cultural reformer toward European and Russian cultures on the basis of enlightened Islam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abai Qunanbaiuly has received more than 320,859 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Abai Qunanbaiuly is the 583rd most popular writer (down from 552nd in 2019), the 9th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (up from 10th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Kazakhstani Writer.

Abai Kunanbayuly is most famous for his epic poem, "Kutadgu Bilig" (or "Wisdom of Royal Glory"), which is the longest surviving work in the Turkic language.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abai Qunanbaiuly ranks 583 out of 7,302. Before him are Ninon de l'Enclos, Władysław Reymont, Cassiodorus, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Osip Mandelstam, and Enid Blyton. After him are Samuel Butler, Allen Ginsberg, Su Shi, Wang Wei, Vasubandhu, and Bruno Schulz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Abai Qunanbaiuly ranks 13. Before him are Gabriel Fauré, Élie Metchnikoff, Amadeo I of Spain, Carl Spitteler, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, and Ludwig III of Bavaria. After him are Nikola Pašić, Edmond James de Rothschild, Paul Vidal de La Blache, Ion Ivanovici, George Darwin, and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Among people deceased in 1904, Abai Qunanbaiuly ranks 12. Before him are Friedrich Ratzel, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Henry Morton Stanley, Niels Ryberg Finsen, and Gabriel Tarde. After him are Eadweard Muybridge, Henri Fantin-Latour, Vasily Vereshchagin, George, King of Saxony, Stepan Makarov, and Paul Kruger.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Abai Qunanbaiuly ranks 9 out of 193. Before him are Ahmad Yasawi (1103), Seljuk (902), Muhammad Shaybani (1451), Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953), Akhmad Kadyrov (1951), and Lavr Kornilov (1870). After him are Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), Tughlugh Timur (1329), Edigu (1352), Ablai Khan (1711), and Shoqan Walikhanov (1835).

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Among WRITERS In Kazakhstan

Among writers born in Kazakhstan, Abai Qunanbaiuly ranks 2. Before him are Ahmad Yasawi (1103). After him are Mukhtar Auezov (1897), Mukaghali Makatayev (1931), Ybyrai Altynsarin (1841), Saken Seifullin (1894), Vsevolod Ivanov (1895), Alexander Volkov (1891), Alexander Kazantsev (1906), and Sergei Lukyanenko (1968).

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