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Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī

1413 - 1482

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Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī (Persian: کمال‌الدین عبدالرزاق بن اسحاق سمرقندی, Kamal-ud-Din Abd-ur-Razzaq ibn Ishaq Samarqandi; 1413–1482) was a Persian Timurid chronicler and Islamic scholar. He was for a while the ambassador of Shah Rukh, the Timurid dynasty ruler of Persia. In his role as ambassador he visited Kozhikode in south India in the early 1440s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī has received more than 90,030 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī is the 412th most popular historian (down from 410th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 118th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Afghan Historian.

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  • 24

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  • 3.04

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  • 3.57

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī ranks 412 out of 561. Before him are Florian Cajori, Chimalpahin, Daniel Pipes, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Henrik Gabriel Porthan, and Ekvtime Takaishvili. After him are Thomas Fuller, Boris Chicherin, Neagu Djuvara, Heinrich Ewald, Thomas Walker Arnold, and Isabella Bashmakova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1413, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī ranks 10. Before him are Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Marco Barbarigo, Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg, Sayf al-Din Khushqadam, Giosafat Barbaro, and Vakhtang IV of Georgia.  Among people deceased in 1482, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī ranks 15. Before him are Lucrezia Tornabuoni, William III, Landgrave of Thuringia, Louis of Cyprus, Giovanni di Paolo, William the Victorious, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Mechthild of the Palatinate.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī ranks 116 out of 177. Before him are Mohammed Fahim (1957), Abdul Aziz Hotak (1700), Antimachus I (-200), Sima Samar (1957), Abdul Rasul Sayyaf (1946), and Ayub Shah Durrani (1800). After him are Apollodotus I (-300), Malalai of Maiwand (1861), Abdul Kabir (1958), Anahita Ratebzad (1931), Ahmad Zia Massoud (1956), and Mahmud Shah Durrani (1769).

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Among HISTORIANS In Afghanistan

Among historians born in Afghanistan, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī ranks 4. Before him are Ibn Hibban (883), Khvandamir (1475), and Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193).

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