1103 - 1166
Ahmad Yasawi (Kazakh: Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, romanized: Qoja Ahmet Iasaui, قوجا احمەت ياساۋٸ; Persian: خواجه اَحمدِ یَسوی, 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 198,969 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ahmad Yasawi is the 354th most popular writer (up from 389th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 4th 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.
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Among writers, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 354 out of 5,755. Before him are James Fenimore Cooper, Truman Capote, John Keats, Max Brod, Nâzım Hikmet, and Jacques Prévert. After him are Andrzej Sapkowski, Jean Genet, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Susan Sontag, and Pär Lagerkvist.
1789 - 1851
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 348
1924 - 1984
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 349
1795 - 1821
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 350
1884 - 1968
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 351
1902 - 1963
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 352
1900 - 1977
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 353
1103 - 1166
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 354
1948 - Present
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 355
1910 - 1986
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 356
900 - 960
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 357
1864 - 1931
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 358
1933 - 2004
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 359
1891 - 1974
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 360
Among people born in 1103, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 1. After him are Harald Gille, André de Montbard, William Adelin, Emperor Toba, Matilda of Boulogne, Alfonso Jordan, Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily, Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia, Aénor de Châtellerault, Adeliza of Louvain, 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, and Constantine Angelos.
1103 - 1166
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 1
1103 - 1136
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 2
1103 - 1156
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 3
1103 - 1120
HPI: 57.98
Rank: 4
1103 - 1156
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 5
1103 - 1152
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 6
1103 - 1148
HPI: 56.87
Rank: 7
1103 - 1135
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 8
1103 - 1130
HPI: 54.60
Rank: 9
1103 - 1130
HPI: 54.05
Rank: 10
1103 - 1151
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 11
1103 - 1159
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 12
1078 - 1166
HPI: 72.71
Rank: 1
1103 - 1166
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 2
1130 - 1166
HPI: 67.14
Rank: 3
1126 - 1166
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 4
1136 - 1166
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 5
1093 - 1166
HPI: 49.16
Rank: 6
Among people born in Kazakhstan, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 5 out of 154. Before him are Tomyris (-600), Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940), Baibars (1223), and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953). After him are Seljuk (902), Lavr Kornilov (1870), Akhmad Kadyrov (1951), Aslan Maskhadov (1951), Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946), and Shoqan Walikhanov (1835).
600 BC - 600 BC
HPI: 77.64
Rank: 1
1940 - Present
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 2
1223 - 1277
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 3
1953 - Present
HPI: 68.90
Rank: 4
1103 - 1166
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 5
902 - 1038
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 6
1870 - 1918
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 7
1951 - 2004
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 8
1951 - 2005
HPI: 66.05
Rank: 9
1845 - 1904
HPI: 65.60
Rank: 10
1946 - 2022
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 11
1835 - 1865
HPI: 59.88
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Kazakhstan, Ahmad Yasawi ranks 1. After him are Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), Ybyrai Altynsarin (1841), Mukaghali Makatayev (1931), Saken Seifullin (1894), Alexander Volkov (1891), Sergei Lukyanenko (1968), and Alexander Kazantsev (1906).
1103 - 1166
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 1
1845 - 1904
HPI: 65.60
Rank: 2
1841 - 1889
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 3
1931 - 1976
HPI: 55.72
Rank: 4
1894 - 1938
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 5
1891 - 1977
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 6
1968 - Present
HPI: 46.98
Rank: 7
1906 - 2002
HPI: 46.12
Rank: 8