WRITER

Ahmad Yasawi

1103 - 1166

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Ahmad Yasawi (Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, romanized: Qoja Ahmet Iasaui, قوجا احمەت ياساۋٸ; Persian: خواجه احمد یسوی, romanized: Khwāje Ahmad-e Yasavī; 1093–1166) was a Turkic poet and Sufi, an early mystic who exerted a powerful influence on the development of Sufi orders throughout the Turkic-speaking world. Yasawi is the earliest known Turkic poet who composed poetry in Middle Turkic. He was a pioneer of popular mysticism, founded the first Turkic Sufi order, the Yasawiyya or Yeseviye, which very quickly spread over Turkic-speaking areas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmad Yasawi has received more than 224,807 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Ahmad Yasawi is the 354th most popular writer, the 3rd most popular biography from Kazakhstan (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Writer.

Ahmad Yasawi is most famous for his book, The Book of Animals, which is a compilation of stories about animals and their characteristics.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 69.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 354 out of 7,302. Before him are Karl May, Ezra Pound, Joseph Brodsky, Ken Follett, Louise Glück, and Yunus Emre. After him are Herta Müller, Mikhail Lermontov, Simonides of Ceos, James Fenimore Cooper, Jorge Amado, and Margaret Mitchell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1103, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 1. After him are William Adelin, Harald Gille, Emperor Toba, Alfonso Jordan, André de Montbard, Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily, Adeliza of Louvain, Matilda of Boulogne, Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia, Aénor de Châtellerault, and Agnes of Aquitaine, Queen of Aragon. Among people deceased in 1166, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 2. Before him is Abdul Qadir Gilani. After him are Saint Rosalia, William I of Sicily, Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Provence, Constantine Angelos, and Yasovarman II.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 3 out of 193. Before him are Tomyris (-600), and Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940). After him are Seljuk (902), Muhammad Shaybani (1451), Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953), Akhmad Kadyrov (1951), Lavr Kornilov (1870), Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), and Tughlugh Timur (1329).

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Among WRITERS In Kazakhstan

Among writers born in Kazakhstan, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 1. After him are Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), Mukhtar Auezov (1897), Mukaghali Makatayev (1931), Ybyrai Altynsarin (1841), Saken Seifullin (1894), Vsevolod Ivanov (1895), Alexander Volkov (1891), Alexander Kazantsev (1906), and Sergei Lukyanenko (1968).

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