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Ahmad Kasravi

1890 - 1946

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Ahmad Hokmabadi Tabrizi (Persian: سید احمد حکم‌آبادی تبریزی, romanized: Ahmad-e Hokmabadi-ye Tabrizi;‎ 29 September 1890 – 11 March 1946), later known as Ahmad Kasravi, was a pre-eminent Iranian historian, jurist, linguist, theologian, a staunch secularist and intellectual. He was a professor of law at the University of Tehran, as well as an attorney and judge in Tehran, Iran. Born in Hokmavar (Hokmabad), Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azerbaijani. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad Kasravi has received more than 188,766 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ahmad Kasravi is the 221st most popular historian (down from 208th in 2019), the 267th most popular biography from Iran (down from 240th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Iranian Historian.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 221 out of 561. Before him are Antiochus of Syracuse, Vasily Klyuchevsky, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Ivane Javakhishvili, John Foxe, and Sigfried Giedion. After him are Albert Soboul, Moritz Cantor, Ghazar Parpetsi, Bernard Berenson, Henri Maspero, and Peter Andreas Munch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 117. Before him are Jüri Uluots, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Mauno Pekkala, Vasili Eroshenko, Erik Heinrichs, and Michał Rola-Żymierski. After him are Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Fritz Busch, Elizabeth Bolden, André-Louis Danjon, Henny Porten, and Dion Fortune. Among people deceased in 1946, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 104. Before him are Max Pauly, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Gerda Steinhoff, Claus Schilling, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, and Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After him are Max von Oppenheim, Albert Sechehaye, François de La Rocque, Ioannis Rallis, Heinrich George, and Dion Fortune.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 267 out of 631. Before him are Mostafa Chamran (1932), Ariobarzanes of Persis (-368), Farahnaz Pahlavi (1963), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh (1958). After him are Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), Abdullah Mirza (1433), Ali-Reza Pahlavi (1966), Maryam Rajavi (1953), Lady Adela (1847), and Leila Pahlavi (1970).

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Among HISTORIANS In Iran

Among historians born in Iran, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 4. Before him are Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897), Ibn al-Faqih (null), and Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500). After him are Hafiz-i Abru (null), Ehsan Yarshater (1920), and Firishta (1560).

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