WRITER

Abdullah Abdul Kadir

1796 - 1854

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Abdullah bin Abdul al Kadir (1796–1854) (Arabic: عبد الله بن عبد القادر 'Abd Allāh bin 'Abd al-Qādir) also known as Munshi Abdullah, was a Malayan writer. The term Munshi means "teacher" or "educator". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdullah Abdul Kadir has received more than 110,677 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Abdullah Abdul Kadir is the 3,064th most popular writer (down from 2,808th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Malaysia (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Malaysian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

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  • 52.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Hikayat Abdullah
Malaysia
Hikayat Panca Tanderan

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abdullah Abdul Kadir ranks 3,064 out of 7,302Before him are Ricardo Piglia, Shulamith Firestone, Jean Astruc, Félix Fénéon, Saib Tabrizi, and Liviu Rebreanu. After him are Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, Charles-Louis Havas, Charles-Louis Philippe, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Subh-i-Azal, and Lois Lowry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Abdullah Abdul Kadir ranks 34Before him are Princess Frederica Wilhelmina of Prussia, Walter Hunt, John Stevens Henslow, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, and Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Manto Mavrogenous, Horace Mann, Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Andreas von Ettingshausen, Antonios Kriezis, and George Catlin. Among people deceased in 1854, Abdullah Abdul Kadir ranks 27Before him are Nicolás Bravo, Vatroslav Lisinski, Émilie de Villeneuve, Silvio Pellico, Joseph de Villèle, and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. After him are Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud, Arthur Aikin, Simón Rodríguez, Maria Wirtemberska, Henriette Sontag, and José Joaquín de Herrera.

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In Malaysia

Among people born in Malaysia, Abdullah Abdul Kadir ranks 21 out of 90Before him are Ahmad Shah of Pahang (1930), P. Ramlee (1929), Yusof Ishak (1910), Jimmy Choo (1948), Sirajuddin of Perlis (1943), and James Wan (1977). After him are Azlan Shah of Perak (1928), Hisamuddin of Selangor (1898), Tsai Ming-liang (1957), Muhammad V of Kelantan (1969), Salahuddin of Selangor (1926), and Ismail Sabri Yaakob (1960).

Among WRITERS In Malaysia

Among writers born in Malaysia, Abdullah Abdul Kadir ranks 1