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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 (Persian: احمد کسروی, romanized: Ahmad-e 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 174,492 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ahmad Kasravi is the 208th most popular historian (down from 197th in 2019), the 240th most popular biography from Iran (down from 238th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iranian Historian.

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  • 21

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 208 out of 339Before him are Antiochus of Syracuse, Krste Misirkov, Sigfried Giedion, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Vasily Klyuchevsky, and Fritz Fischer. After him are Philochorus, Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, William of Malmesbury, Claude Cahen, Christian Gottlob Heyne, and Joseph Klausner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 107Before him are Fawzi al-Qawuqji, László Bárdossy, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Fritz Busch, Johannes Vares, and Rachel Bluwstein. After him are Adolphe Menjou, Jean Rhys, Elpidio Quirino, Henny Porten, Harry Hopkins, and Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1946, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 104Before him are Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Louis Zutter, Benjamin I of Constantinople, Johannes Vares, and Léon Gaumont. After him are George Arliss, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Heinrich George, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 240 out of 528Before him are Mohammad Beheshti (1928), Mohammad-Javad Bahonar (1933), Abolqasem Lahouti (1887), Hayedeh (1942), Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (854), and Cassandra Clare (1973). After him are Ariobarzanes of Persis (-368), Gotarzes II of Parthia (10), Phraates I (-190), Asadi Tusi (999), Ubayd Zakani (1301), and Raffi (1835).

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Among HISTORIANS In Iran

Among historians born in Iran, Ahmad Kasravi ranks 3Before him are Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897) and Ibn al-Faqih (null). After him are Ehsan Yarshater (1920).