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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 western India in the early 1440s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī has received more than 88,588 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī is the 410th most popular historian (down from 326th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 92nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Afghan Historian.

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  • 22

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī ranks 410 out of 339. Before him are Arthur Smith Woodward, Florian Cajori, Christopher Browning, Robert Service, Carroll Quigley, and Donald Nicol. After him are William of Newburgh, Robert Jay Lifton, Albrecht Weber, Timothy D. Snyder, Orlando Figes, and Horace Engdahl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1413, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī ranks 8. Before him are Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg, Catherine of Bologna, Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Marco Barbarigo, Giosafat Barbaro, and Vakhtang IV of Georgia.  Among people deceased in 1482, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī ranks 13. Before him are Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Philibert I, Duke of Savoy, Gedik Ahmed Pasha, William III, Landgrave of Thuringia, Giovanni di Paolo, and Louis of Cyprus.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī ranks 118 out of 145. Before him are Karim Khalili (1950), Ahmad Massoud (1989), Anahita Ratebzad (1931), Aryana Sayeed (1970), Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193), and Sirajuddin Haqqani (1970). After him are Ismail of Ghazni (null), Nadia Nadim (1988), Agathokleia (-200), Dadullah (1966), Zablon Simintov (1960), and Abdul Rahman (1965).

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Among HISTORIANS In Afghanistan

Among historians born in Afghanistan, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī ranks 3. Before him are Ibn Hibban (883) and Minhaj-i-Siraj (1193).

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